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de Bruijn-type identity for systems with flux

Statistical Mechanics 2013-10-11 v1

Abstract

We show that an information-theoretic relation called the de Bruijn-type identity can be reformulated in a physical context with probability currents. The time derivatives of relative entropies under the continuity equation are presented, which shows that the conservation of distance between a pair of distributions is generally not guaranteed. As an important implication of these results, we discuss and present a possible conceptual framework for the classical no-cloning (deleting) theorem and qualitatively assert that we can attribute the perfect performance of the operating machine to the openness (non-vanishing flow at boundaries between the processing machine and the system) during the process.

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@article{arxiv.1310.2812,
  title  = {de Bruijn-type identity for systems with flux},
  author = {Takuya Yamano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2812},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages, no figure

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