Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production,
storage, and transfer of energy. This Colloquium concentrates on the field of quantum …

Entropy production is a key quantity in any finite-time thermodynamic process. It is intimately
tied with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, embodying a tool to extend …

A computer is generally considered to be a universal computational device; ie, it is believed
able to simulate any physical computational device with a cost in computation time of at most …

This chapter describes the possibility of simulating physics in the classical approximation, a
thing which is usually described by local differential equations. But the physical world is …

A digital computer is generally believed to be an efficient universal computing device; that is,
it is believed to be able to simulate any physical computing device with an increase in …

It is argued that underlying the Church–Turing hypothesis there is an implicit physical
assertion. Here, this assertion is presented explicitly as a physical principle:'every finitely …

We show that a set of gates that consists of all one-bit quantum gates [U (2)] and the two-bit
exclusive-O R gate [that maps Boolean values (x, y) to (x, x⊕ y)] is universal in the sense …

Neural networks are a computing paradigm that is finding increasing attention among
computer scientists. In this book, theoretical laws and models previously scattered in the …

The advent of high-speed computers and sophisticated software tools has made the
computation of derivatives for functions defined by evaluation programs both easier and …

Conservative logic is a comprehensive model of computation which explicitly reflects a
number of fundamental principles of physics, such as the reversibility of the dynamical laws …