id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt pz50gt57072 Enrique Pacis Blair The Theory and Modeling of Power Dissipation and Quantum Decoherence in Molecular Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) 1904 .txt text/plain 326 12 39 A model of a QCA molecule interacting with a simple, explicitly-modeled quantum environment is developed to study quantum decoherence in molecular QCA, revealing that environmental interactions tend to stabilize molecular QCA bits. A model of the energetics of QCA bit packets demonstrates that energy input from the clock required to form a bit packet may be returned to the clock upon erasure of the bit packet. cache/pz50gt57072.txt txt/pz50gt57072.txt