Thermodynamic costs of Turing machines

Turing machines (TMs) are the canonical model of computation in computer science and physics. We combine techniques from algorithmic information theory and stochastic thermodynamics to analyze the thermodynamic costs of TMs. We consider two different ways of realizing a given TM with a physical proc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Artemy Kolchinsky, David H. Wolpert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-08-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033312