Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: The energy dissipation in a proposed digital device in which discrete degrees of freedom are used to represent digital information (a "single-electron parametron") was analyzed. If the switching speed is not too high, the device may operate reversibly (adiabatically), and the energy dissipation ℰ per bit may be much less than the thermal energy scale kBT (where kB is Boltzmann's constant and T is temperature). The energy-time product ℰtau is, however, much greater than Planck's constant Planck's over 2pi, at least in the standard "orthodox" model of single-electron tunneling that was used in these calculations.
Source: Science
Institution: Stony Brook University
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Theory and Mathematics
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1988334222