The reversible computation paradigm aims to provide a new foundation for general classical
digital computing that is capable of circumventing the thermodynamic limits to the energy …

Today's computers are based on irreversible logic devices, which have been known to be
fundamentally energy-inefficient for several decades. Recently, alternative reversible logic …

Abstract Information loss from a computation implies energy dissipation due to Landauer's
Principle. Thus, increasing the amount of useful computational work that can be …

We review the physical foundations of Landauer's Principle, which relates the loss of
information from a computational process to an increase in thermodynamic entropy. Despite …

Landauer's Principle that information loss from a computation implies entropy increase can
be rigorously proved from mathematical physics. However, carefully examining its detailed …

Reversible computing is motivated by the von Neumann-Landauer (VNL) principle, a
theorem of modern physics telling us that ordinary irreversible logic operations (which …

Physics tells us that at the microscopic level the evolution of a (micro-) state is reversible, ie
deterministic both forward and backward in time. In contrast, our best models of computation …

In this memo, we quantitatively analyze the performance and cost-efficiency of adiabatic
(nearly thermodynamically reversible) computing, compared to ordinary (fully irreversible) …

Written by one of the few top internationally recognized experts in the field, this book
concentrates on those topics that will remain fundamental, such as low power computing …

Written by one of the few top internationally recognized experts in the field, this book
concentrates on those topics that will remain fundamental, such as low power computing …