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There are a variety of results in the literature proving forms of computability for topological entropy and pressure on subshifts. In this work, we prove two quite general results, showing that topological pressure is always computable from…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-12 C. Evans Hedges , Ronnie Pavlov

Complex systems are found in most branches of science. It is still argued how to best quantify their complexity and to what end. One prominent measure of complexity (the statistical complexity) has an operational meaning in terms of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-10-24 Karoline Wiesner , Mile Gu , Elisabeth Rieper , Vlatko Vedral

We consider the problem of learning the Hamiltonian of a quantum system from estimates of Gibbs-state expectation values. Various methods for achieving this task were proposed recently, both from a practical and theoretical point of view.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Adam Artymowicz , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

Recent technological developments have focused the interest of the quantum computing community on investigating how near-term devices could outperform classical computers for practical applications. A central question that remains open is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Daniel Stilck Franca , Raul Garcia-Patron

Physical laws for elementary particles can be described by the quantum dynamics equation given a Hamiltonian. The solution are probability amplitudes in Hilbert space that evolve over time. A probability density function over position and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

We consider interactions as bidirectional channels. We investigate the capacities for interaction Hamiltonians and nonlocal unitary gates to generate entanglement and transmit classical information. We give analytic expressions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 C. H. Bennett , A. W. Harrow , D. W. Leung , J. A. Smolin

We classify two-qubit commuting Hamiltonians in terms of their computational complexity. Suppose one has a two-qubit commuting Hamiltonian H which one can apply to any pair of qubits, starting in a computational basis state. We prove a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Adam Bouland , Laura Mančinska , Xue Zhang

We study classical Hamiltonian systems in which the intrinsic proper time evolution parameter is related through a probability distribution to the physical time, which is assumed to be discrete. - This is motivated by the ``timeless''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 H. -T. Elze

The additional information carried by an enlarged filtration and its measurement was studied by several authors. Already Meyer (Sur un theoreme de J. Jacod, 1978) and Yor (Entropie d'une partition, et grossissement initial d'une filtration,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Anna Aksamit

Extending the quantum formulation of [Phys. Rev. X 3, 041003 (2013)] to a more general setting for studying the thermodynamics of information processing including initial correlations, we generalize the second law of thermodynamics to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Shou-I Tang , Emery Doucet , Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner , Akira Sone

To make clear several issues relating with the thermodynamics of computations, we perform a simulation of a binary device using a Langevin equation. Based on our numerical results, we consider how to estimate thermodynamic entropy of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2019-08-17 Nobuko Fuchikami , Hijiri Iwata , Shunya Ishioka

The so-called {\em leakage-chain rule} is a very important tool used in many security proofs. It gives an upper bound on the entropy loss of a random variable $X$ in case the adversary who having already learned some random variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Maciej Skorski

In this study, we present a reformulation of classical equilibrium thermodynamics by replacing the obscure and ambiguous concept of entropy with the clear and intuitive concept of information stored in a thermodynamic system. Specifically,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-15 Faical Barzi , Kaoutar Fethi

We propose a new framework for reasoning about information in complex systems. Our foundation is based on a variational extension of Shannon's information theory that takes into account the modeling power and computational constraints of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yilun Xu , Shengjia Zhao , Jiaming Song , Russell Stewart , Stefano Ermon

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic stability of finite-dimensional stochastic integrable Hamiltonian systems via information entropy. Specifically, we establish the asymptotic vanishing of Shannon entropy difference (with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Chen Wang , Yong Li

A mechanism is proposed that allows to interpret the temporal evolution of a physical system as a result of the inability of an observer to record its whole state and a simple example is given. It is based on a review of the concepts of…

General Physics · Physics 2010-10-15 Alberto Bicego

In a genetic algorithm, fluctuations of the entropy of a genome over time are interpreted as fluctuations of the information that the genome's organism is storing about its environment, being this reflected in more complex organisms. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-11-04 Manuel Cebrian , Manuel Alfonseca , Alfonso Ortega

We use the martingale-theoretic approach of game-theoretic probability to incorporate imprecision into the study of randomness. In particular, we define a notion of computable randomness associated with interval, rather than precise,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Gert de Cooman , Jasper De Bock

Characterizing the entropy of a system is a crucial, and often computationally costly, step in understanding its thermodynamics. It plays a key role in the study of phase transitions, pattern formation, protein folding and more. Current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Amit Nir , Eran Sela , Roy Beck , Yohai Bar-Sinai

A simple method to enhance the quality of communication is to send a carrier with its copies. Classical information theory says that information behaves quantitatively under copying. In other words, if a carrier is more informatic than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Jisho Miyazaki