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Reducing work fluctuation and dissipation in heat engines or, more generally, information heat engines that perform feedback control is vital to maximize their efficiency. The same problem arises when we attempt to maximize the efficiency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-06 Ken Funo , Masahito Ueda

A critical challenge for modern system design is meeting the overwhelming performance, storage, and communication bandwidth demand of emerging applications within a tightly bound power budget. As both the time and power, hence the energy,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ismail Akturk , Ulya R. Karpuzcu

The efficiency of wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) systems requires an essential reevaluation and rethinking of the entire transceiver chain, which is characterized by a bottom-up multi-layer design approach. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Ioannis Krikidis , Constantinos Psomas

Numerical implementation of a theory yields acoustic wave packets whose peak-to-peak speeds, $c_{3d}$, are supersonic in a dispersionless medium due to temporal interference between direct and boundary-reflected paths. The effect occurs…

General Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 John L. Spiesberger , Eugene Terray

Ecological and evolutionary processes show various population dynamics depending on internal interactions and environmental changes. While crucial in predicting biological processes, discovering general relations for such nonlinear dynamics…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Kyosuke Adachi , Ryosuke Iritani , Ryusuke Hamazaki

Fluctuation dynamics of an experimentally measured observable offer a primary signal for nonequilibrium systems, along with dynamics of the mean. While universal speed limits for the mean have actively been studied recently, constraints for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-08 Ryusuke Hamazaki

Curiously overlooked in physics is its dependence on the transmission of numbers. For example the transmission of numerical clock readings is implicit in the concept of a coordinate system. The transmission of numbers and other logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 John M. Myers , F. Hadi Madjid

Living cells deploy many resources to sense their environments, including receptors, downstream signaling molecules, time and fuel. However, it is not known which resources fundamentally limit the precision of sensing, like weak links in a…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-31 Christopher C. Govern , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

The exchange of "information" between a system and its environment based on the reduced dynamics is investigated. The association of trace distance with information cannot be stated, because of lack of symmetry between leakage from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Filip A. Wudarski , Francesco Petruccione

Information transmission in biological signaling circuits has often been described using the metaphor of a noise filter. Cellular systems need accurate, real-time data about their environmental conditions, but the biochemical reaction…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-27 David Hathcock , James Sheehy , Casey Weisenberger , Efe Ilker , Michael Hinczewski

In wireless communication-based formation control systems, the control performance is significantly impacted by the channel capacity of each communication link between agents. This relationship, however, remains under-investigated in the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yaru Chen , Yirui Cong , Xiangyun Zhou , Long Cheng , Xiangke Wang

The limited distinctness of physical systems is roughly expressed by uncertainty relations. Here we show distinctness is a finite resource we can exactly count to define basic physical quantities, limits to the resolution of space and time,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Norman Margolus

Many biological regulatory systems process signals out of steady state and respond with a physiological delay. A simple model of regulation which respects these features shows how the ability of a delayed output to transmit information is…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-13 Francesca Mancini , Chris H. Wiggins , Matteo Marsili , Aleksandra M. Walczak

We investigate bounds on speed, non-adiabatic entropy production and trade-off relation between them for classical stochastic processes with time-independent transition rates. Our results show that the time required to evolve from an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-10 Jie Gu

Biological information processing manifests a huge variety in its complexity and capability among different organisms, which presumably stems from the evolutionary optimization under limited computational resources. Starting from the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Takehiro Tottori , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

We analyze the fate of dynamical systems that consist of two kind of processes. The first type is supposed to perform a certain function by processing information at a required high accuracy, which is, however, limited to less than 100…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Maximilian Voit , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

Cells use temporal dynamical patterns to transmit information via signaling pathways. As optimality with respect to the environment plays a fundamental role in biological systems, organisms have evolved optimal ways to transmit information.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The speed of the transmission of a physical signal from a sender to a receiver is limited by the speed of light, regardless of the physical system being classical or quantum. In this sense, quantum mechanics can not provide any enhancement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Sebastian Horvat , Borivoje Dakić

Coherence is the most fundamental quantum resource in quantum information processing. How fast a physical system gets coherence or decoherence is a critical ingredient. We present an attainable quantum speed limit based on the variation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zi-yi Mai , CHang-shui Yu

Despite the wide usage of information as a concept in science, we have yet to develop a clear & concise scientific definition. This paper is aimed at laying the foundations for a new theory concerning the mechanics of information alongside…

General Physics · Physics 2017-07-13 Kiyam Lin , SongLing Lin