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Finding the optimal encoding strategies can be challenging for communication using quantum channels, as classical and quantum capacities may be superadditive. Entanglement assistance can often simplify this task, as the…

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Molecular motors play pivotal roles in organizing the interior of cells. A motor efficient in cargo transport would move along cytoskeletal filaments with a high speed and a minimal error in transport distance (or time) while consuming a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Wonseok Hwang , Changbong Hyeon

We introduce a simple model for an engine based on the Nernst effect. In the presence of a magnetic field, a vertical heat current can drive a horizontal particle current against a chemical potential. For a microscopic model invoking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-07 Julian Stark , Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito , Udo Seifert

The efficiency of a thermal engine working in linear response regime in a multi-terminals configuration is discussed. For the generic three-terminal case, we provide a general definition of local and non-local transport coefficients:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Francesco Mazza , Riccardo Bosisio , Giuliano Benenti , Vittorio Giovannetti , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

Classical statistical particle mechanics in the configuration space can be represented by a nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Even without assuming the existence of deterministic particle trajectories, the resulting quantum-like statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 H. Nikolic

In the pass from classical to modern physics, the idea of supposing some quantities having distinct or bounded values and keeping the rest continuous has been useful in treating many problems. In this paper, we suppose an upper limit for…

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We study the optimal transport between two probability measures on the real line, where the transport plans are laws of one-step martingales. A quasi-sure formulation of the dual problem is introduced and shown to yield a complete duality…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Marcel Nutz , Nizar Touzi

The confinement mechanism proposed earlier and then applied successfully to meson spectroscopy by one of the authors is interpreted in classical terms. For this aim the unique solution of the Maxwell equations, an analog of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Yu. P. Goncharov , N. E. Firsova

An exact expression for the Drude conductivity in one dimension is derived under the presence of an arbitrary potential. In getting the conductivity the influence of the electric field on the crystal potential is taken into account. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Schulz , Steffen Trimper

Free energies of molecules can be calculated by quantum computations or by normal mode classical calculations. However, the first can be computationally impractical for large molecules and the second is based on the assumption of harmonic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Asaf Farhi

We observe that successive applications of known results from the theory of positive systems lead to an {\it efficient general algorithm} for positive realizations of transfer functions. We give two examples to illustrate the algorithm, one…

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An expression is derived characterizing the set of admissible rate pairs for simultaneous transmission of classical and quantum information over a given quantum channel, generalizing both the classical and quantum capacities of the channel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Devetak , P. W. Shor

We present a general method to derive the classical mechanics of a system of identical particles in a way that retains information about quantum statistics. The resulting statistical mechanics can be interpreted as a classical version of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. H. Hansson , S. B. Isakov , J. M. Leinaas , U. Lindstrom

A new method, dual-space cluster expansion, is proposed to study classical phases transitions in the continuum. It relies on replacing the particle positions as integration variables by the momenta of the relative displacements of particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Andras Suto

We study microscopic engines that use a single active particle as their "working medium". Part of the energy required to drive the directed motion of the particle can be recovered as work, even at constant temperature. A wide class of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 Thomas Speck

New physical insight into the correspondence between path integral concepts and the Schr\"odinger formulation is gained by the analysis of the effective classical potential, that is defined within the Feynman path integral formulation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rafael Ramírez , Telesforo López-Ciudad

An extension of the classical action principle obtained in the framework of the gauge transformations, is used to describe the motion of a particle. This extension assigns many, but not all, paths to a particle. Properties of the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Vatsya

The Doppler effect has many applications in science and engineering fields. Although the format of the classical Doppler effect equation is simple, the derivation for the equation in physics textbooks is not intuitive to many students. This…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-04 Hangtian Lei

We consider the problem of learning an interpretable potential energy function from a Hamiltonian system's trajectories. We address this problem for classical, separable Hamiltonian systems. Our approach first constructs a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Harish S. Bhat

Quantum-mechanical analysis based on an exact sum rule is used to extract an semiclassical angle-dependent energy function for transition metal ions in biomolecules. The angular dependence is simple but different from existing classical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Carlsson