Lecture 2:
Ultimate limits of computation

Contents of lecture (preliminary):

  • More about fundamental physical aspects of computing
  • Ultimate limits - computing with Big Bang and black holes
  • Possible limits - atomic computers
  • Realistic limits - quantum devices
  • Scaling down microelectronics to nanoelectronics - Moore's law
  • How small can a MOSFET transistor get?
  • Classical and quantum devices
  • Ballistic transistors
  • Tunneling transistors
  • Single-electron transistors
  • Superconducting transistors
  • (Bio)chemical transistors
  • Neuron transistors
  • Neural computers and brains

    Lecture notes

    Literature

    Included in the Compendium:

  • S. Lloyd, Nature

    Further reading:

  • N.N.

    Links