Notes on the history of reversible computation

  • Authors:
  • Charles H. Bennett

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

  • Venue:
  • IBM Journal of Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We review the history of the thermodynamics of information processing, beginning with the paradox of Maxwelrs demon; continuing through the efforts of Szilard, Brillouin, and others to demonstrate a thermodynamic cost of information acquisition; the discovery by Landauer of the thermodynamic cost of information destruction; the development of the theory of and classical models for reversible computation; and ending with a brief survey of recent work on quantum reversible computation.