Comparison of energy requirements for classical and quantum information processing Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • By considering the energy requirements of quantum and classical computers we propose a criterion to separate the classical from the quantum regime and show that the classical scaling laws are much more favorable for conventional, general purpose computation.

published proceedings

  • FLUCTUATION AND NOISE LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

  • Gea-Banacloche, J., & Kish, L. B.

citation count

  • 15

complete list of authors

  • Gea-Banacloche, J||Kish, LB

publication date

  • September 2003