Computation and Thermodynamics (not Statistical Mechanics)

October 23 2008
Types d’événements
Séminaire LARSIM
Owen Maroney
SPEC Bât 774, p.50
23/10/2008
from 14:15

Why attempts to develop a thermodynamics of computation inevitably need to introduce ideas that can only be imported, in a question-begging way, from statistical mechanics, and have little or no justification in phenomenological (and fluctuation-free) thermodynamics.

University of Sydney