A concept from physics or materials science that computing depends on but that is not itself a computational idea. Belongs here: Semiconductor. Does not belong here: the computing systems built from the physical concept, filed as system entities, or the engineering techniques for using it, filed under Technique.
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1. Wikipedia: Landauer's principle
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The principle was first proposed by Rolf Landauer in 1961.
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