Monday, June 6, 2011
Cooling through computation
Erasing data generates heat. For example, an And gate can erase data because if you get a false (0) you don't know if the inputs were both false or if just one of them were 0. Hence quantum computers need to perform reversible operations. Here is some pretty cool work on cooling computers by the computations they perform.
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