Landauer's principle
Principio de Landauer
- Date
- 1961 · confidence high
- Place
- Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Rolf Landauer
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A physical principle stating that logically irreversible erasure of a bit of information necessarily dissipates a minimum amount of heat, proposed by Rolf Landauer at IBM's research center.
What it led to
- Reversible computing
- Thermodynamic limits of computation
- Energy efficiency in microprocessors
- Physical information theory