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Since its foundations, more than one hundred years ago, the field of structural biology has strived to understand and analyze the properties of molecules and their interactions by studying the structure that they take in 3D space. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-27 Gabriele Corso

We give a non-technical introduction of the basic concepts of Quantum Information Theory along the distinction between possible and impossible machines. We then proceed to describe the mathematical framework of Quantum Information Theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. F. Werner

Identification capacity has been established as a relevant performance metric for various goal-/task-oriented applications, where the receiver may be interested in only a particular message that represents an event or a task. For example,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Mohammad Javad Salariseddigh , Heinz Koeppl , Holger Boche , Vahid Jamali

This paper considers a problem of quantum communication between parties that are connected through a network of quantum channels. The model in this paper assumes that there is no prior entanglement shared among any of the parties, but that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Hirotada Kobayashi , Francois Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura , Martin Roetteler

One of the major achievements of the recently emerged quantum information theory is the introduction and thorough investigation of the notion of quantum channel which is a basic building block of any data-transmitting or data-processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 A. S. Holevo , V. Giovannetti

This paper considers the capacity of a diffusion-based molecular communication link assuming the receiver uses chemical reactions. The key contribution is we show that enzymatic reaction cycles, which is a class of chemical reactions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Hamdan Awan , Chun Tung Chou

Many of today's most pressing issues require a more robust understanding of how information spreads in populations. Current models of information spread can be thought of as falling into one of two varieties: epidemiologically-inspired…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-03 Sagar Kumar , Moritz Laber , Maimuna S. Majumder , Brooke Foucault Welles

A molecule traveling in a realistic propagation environment can experience stochastic interactions with other molecules and the environment boundary. The statistical behavior of some isolated phenomena, such as dilute unbounded molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

In recent years, progresses in nanotechnology have established the foundations for implementing nanomachines capable of carrying out simple but significant tasks. Under this stimulus, researchers have been proposing various solutions for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Luca Felicetti , Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Pietro Liò

This paper considers particle propagation in a cylindrical molecular communication channel, e.g. a simplified model of a blood vessel. Emitted particles are influenced by diffusion, flow, and a vertical force induced e.g. by gravity or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober

Improving the understanding of diffusive processes in networks with complex topologies is one of the main challenges of today's complexity science. Each network possesses an intrinsic diffusive potential that depends on its structural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-11-02 T. A. Schieber , L. C. Carpi , P. M. Pardalos , C. Masoller , A. Díaz-Guilera , M. G. Ravetti

The concept of optimal communication channels shapes our understanding of wave-based communication. Its analysis, however, always pertains to specific communication-domain geometries, without a general theory of scaling laws or fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Zeyu Kuang , David A. B. Miller , Owen D. Miller

In this paper, we propose novel modulation techniques using isomers as messenger molecules for nano communication via diffusion. To evaluate achievable rate performance, we compare the proposed techniques with concentration-based and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-01-05 Na-Rae Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

Molecular communication (MC) provides a foundational framework for information transmission in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), where efficiency and reliability are crucial. However, the inherent limitations of molecular channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Hanlin Cai , Ozgur B. Akan

Calculus and geometry are ubiquitous in the theoretical modelling of scientific phenomena, but have historically been very challenging to apply directly to real data as statistics. Diffusion geometry is a new theory that reformulates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Iolo Jones , David Lanners

Diffusion models have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models in modeling discrete categorical data. However, diffusion models that directly work on discrete data space fail to fully exploit the power of iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jaehyeong Jo , Sung Ju Hwang

In this paper an analytical model is introduced to describe the impulse response of the diffusive channel between a pointwise transmitter and a given fully-absorbing (FA) receiver in a molecular communication (MC) system. The presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Marco Ferrari , Fardad Vakilipoor , Eric Regonesi , Mariangela Rapisarda , Maurizio Magarini

The classical problem in network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers which decode the same set of messages. In this work, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Changho Suh , Naveen Goela , Michael Gastpar

This paper presents a Markov-based system model for microfluidic molecular communication (MC) channels. By discretizing the advection-diffusion dynamics, the proposed model establishes a physically consistent state-space formulation. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Pit Hofmann , Fatima Rani , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek

In this paper, diffusion-based molecular commu- nication with ligand receptor receivers is studied. Information messages are assumed to be encoded via variations of the con- centration of molecules. The randomness in the ligand reception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Faramarz Fekri