Equation 24 · Part 1 · The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversibility at Molecular Scale
Symbol k_mathrm B
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athrm B is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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athrm B is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
per erased bit [ 9 ] . This is a lower bound on an idealized erasure, not a claim that every transistor switch dissipates exactly T2 , nor that computation in general has one universal energy per operation.
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