Is There a Fundamental Bound on the Rate at Which Information Can Be Processed?
- 25 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (4), 286-288
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.286
Abstract
It is shown that the laws of physics impose no fundamental bound on the rate at which information can be processed. Recent claims that quantum effects impose such bounds are discussed and shown to be erroneous.Keywords
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