Perugia, May 8, 2018
Published online the new paper on the "Cost of remembering" from NiPS.
The paper, published on Physycal Review A, deals with the fundamental energy limits associated with preserving a single bit of information.
The good news is that, if you operate fast enough and/or carefully enough, you can get away with a negligible energy cost.
The bad news is that no memory can last forever…
Link to the article in PRA: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.052108
Link to the article in arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05544
The cost of remembering