Landauer limit
Landauer limit noun: a theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.
Noun
Landauer limit (plural Landauer limits)
- A theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.
- The figure shows that today's technology is still a factor of 1,000 away from the Landauer limit and that the expected CMOS development will reduce this to a factor of 100 within the next 10 years.2012, Rolf Drechsler, Robert Wille, Reversible Circuits: Recent Accomplishments and Future Challenges for an Emerging Technology, Hafizur Rahaman, Sanatan Chattopadhyay, Santanu Chattopadhyay...
- This Landauer limit is simply an energy, given in equation form as kTln2 . The quantity k is a constant of nature called Boltzmann's constant. The T is the environmental temperature in Kelvin, and ln2 is the natural logarithm of two.2021, Caleb Scharf, The Ascent of Information, Penguin Random House (Riverhead Books), page 192
Forms of Landauer limit
| plural | Landauer limits |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Landauer's limit |
Origin of Landauer limit
After Landauer's principle, named after German-American physicist Rolf Landauer.
Questions about Landauer limit
- What does Landauer limit mean?
- Landauer limit means a theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.
- What part of speech is Landauer limit?
- Landauer limit is a noun.
- What is the plural of Landauer limit?
- The plural of Landauer limit is Landauer limits.
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