The Thermodynamics of Quantum Computers

Exploiting quantum dynamics and quantum correlations to process information has established new forms of computation and simulation, offering significant speed-ups in the time of the computations.

However, another potential advantage of quantum dynamics, still poorly explored, is the energetic performance of the computations, currently a bottleneck in classical high-performance computing. In this seminar, I will discuss some recent results we have obtained in the study of the thermodynamics of quantum gates, a physics of information problem currently getting increasing attention.