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In this thesis I present a short review of ideas in quantum information theory. The first chapter contains introductory material, sketching the central ideas of probability and information theory. Quantum mechanics is presented at the level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert H. Schumann

Basing on unified approach to {\it all} kinds of quantum capacities we show that the rate of quantum information transmission is bounded by the maximal attainable rate of coherent information. Moreover, we show that, if for any bipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki

In this paper, we develop a natural (empirical) relational theory for describing and modeling complex biological phenomena. We have as stepping stone the assertion: function implies structure. The theory is built upon a graph's theory…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-31 Pedro J. Miranda , Giuliano La Guardia

The paper serves as the first contribution towards the development of the theory of efficiency: a unifying framework for the currently disjoint theories of information, complexity, communication and computation. Realizing the defining…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Roman V. Yampolskiy

While information theory has been introduced to characterize the fundamental limitations of control and filtering for a few decades, the existing information-theoretic methods are indirect and cumbersome for analyzing the limitations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Neng Wan , Dapeng Li , Naira Hovakimyan

This work proposes a novel computing performance unit grounded in information theory. Modern computing systems are increasingly diverse, supporting low-precision formats, hardware specialization, and emerging paradigms such as analog,…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Max Hawkins , Richard Vuduc

These lecture notes cover basic automata-theoretic concepts and logical formalisms for the modeling and verification of concurrent and distributed systems. Many of these concepts naturally extend the classical automata and logics over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benedikt Bollig , Paul Gastin

Generative AI has transformed the economics of information production, making explanations, proofs, examples, and analyses available at very low cost. Yet the value of information still depends on whether downstream users can absorb and act…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Bahar Taşkesen

In this paper we formalize the notions of information elements and information lattices, first proposed by Shannon. Exploiting this formalization, we identify a comprehensive parallelism between information lattices and subgroup lattices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Hua Li , Edwin K. P. Chong

The ubiquity of information transmission via molecular communication between cells is comprehensively documented on Earth; this phenomenon might even have played a vital role in the origin(s) and early evolution of life. Motivated by these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Manasvi Lingam

We live in the information age. Claude Shannon, as the father of the information age, gave us a theory of communications that quantified an "amount of information," but, as he pointed out, "no concept of information itself was defined."…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 David Ellerman

The theoretic capacity of a communication system constituted of several transmitting/receiving elements is determined by the singular values of its transfer matrix. Results based on an independent identically distributed channel model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 François Bentosela , Eric Soccorsi

The information capacity of the universe has been a topic of great debate since 1970s, and continues to stimulate multiple branches of physics research. Here we used Shannon's information theory to estimate the amount of encoded information…

General Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Melvin M. Vopson

We establish a precise mathematical equivalence between witness-based similarity systems (REWA) and Shannon's information theory. We prove that witness overlap is mutual information, that REWA bit complexity bounds arise from channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikit Phadke

We develop information theory for the temporal behavior of memoryful agents moving through complex -- structured, stochastic -- environments. We introduce and explore information processes -- stochastic processes produced by cognitive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-04 James P. Crutchfield , Alexandra Jurgens

In this paper, we propose a multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) transmission strategy that is closer to the Shannon limit than the existing strategies. Different from most existing strategies which only consider uniformly distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jie Feng , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Li Shen , Wenjun Zhang

Using the concept of discrete noiseless channels, it was shown by Shannon in A Mathematical Theory of Communication that the ultimate performance of an encoder for a constrained system is limited by the combinatorial capacity of the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Georg Böcherer , Valdemar Cardoso da Rocha , Cecilio Pimentel

Written language is a complex communication signal capable of conveying information encoded in the form of ordered sequences of words. Beyond the local order ruled by grammar, semantic and thematic structures affect long-range patterns in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-17 Marcelo A. Montemurro , Damian Zanette

Biological systems transduce signals from their surroundings through a myriad of pathways. In this paper, we describe signal transduction as a communication system: the signal transduction receptor acts as the receiver in this system, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Andrew W. Eckford , Peter J. Thomas

Probability theory is fundamental for modeling uncertainty, with traditional probabilities being real and non-negative. Complex probability extends this concept by allowing complex-valued probabilities, opening new avenues for analysis in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Chan Li , Hejun Xu , Zhu Cao