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The Landauer principle bridges the energetic cost and information processing, showing that irreversible computation inevitably demands energy dissipation. As energy demands from computation continue to rise, approximate computing has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Quantum mechanics and information theory are among the most important scientific discoveries of the last century. Although these two areas initially developed separately it has emerged that they are in fact intimately related. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Vedral

We review the physical foundations of Landauer's Principle, which relates the loss of information from a computational process to an increase in thermodynamic entropy. Despite the long history of the Principle, its fundamental rationale and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Michael P. Frank

We investigate the nature of information flow in turbulence from an information-thermodynamic viewpoint. For the fully developed three-dimensional fluid turbulence described by the fluctuating Navier-Stokes equation, we prove that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-10 Tomohiro Tanogami , Ryo Araki

We have formulated a family of machine learning problems as the time evolution of Parametric Probabilistic Models (PPMs), inherently rendering a thermodynamic process. Our primary motivation is to leverage the rich toolbox of thermodynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Shervin Sadat Parsi

Motivated by the recent proposed models of the information engine [D. Mandal and C. Jarzynski, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109, 11641 (2012)] and the information refrigerator [D. Mandal, H. T. Quan, and C. Jarzynski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030602…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-30 Yuansheng Cao , Zongping Gong , H. T. Quan

This study developed the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for populations of low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling engines weakly-coupled in a general class of networks to clarify the effects of synchronous and asynchronous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-26 Songhao Yin , Hiroshi Kori , Yuki Izumida

Non-isolated systems have diverse coupling relations with the external environment. These relations generate complex thermodynamics and information transmission between the system and its environment. The framework depicted in the current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-15 Yang Tian , Pei Sun

This thesis is a contribution to the debate on the implications of quantum information theory for the foundations of quantum mechanics. In Part 1, the logical and conceptual status of various notions of information is assessed. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher Gordon Timpson

The out of equilibrium nature of active systems can be exploited for the design of information-based engines. We design two types of an active Szilard engine that use a Maxwell daemon to extract work from an active bath composed of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-07 P. Malgaretti , H. Stark

Thermodynamics is a highly successful macroscopic theory widely used across the natural sciences and for the construction of everyday devices, from car engines and fridges to power plants and solar cells. With thermodynamics predating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Philipp Kammerlander , Janet Anders

Quantum Landauer's principle provides a fundamental lower bound for energy dissipation occurred with information erasure in the quantum regime. While most studies have related the entropy reduction incorporated with the erasure to the lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Kazunari Hashimoto , Chikako Uchiyama

Informational contributions to thermodynamics can be studied in isolation by considering systems with fully-degenerate Hamiltonians. In this regime, being in non-equilibrium -- termed informational non-equilibrium -- provides thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Chung-Yun Hsieh , Benjamin Stratton , Hao-Cheng Weng , Valerio Scarani

One of the fundamental issues in the field of open quantum systems is the classification and quantification of non-Markovianity. In the contest of quantity-based measures of non-Markovianity, the intuition of non-Markovianity in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Hong-Bin Chen , Guang-Yin Chen , Yueh-Nan Chen

Identifying the origin of nonequilibrium characteristics in a generic interacting system having multiple degrees of freedom is a challenging task. In this context, information theoretic measures such as mutual information and related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan , Ayan Banerjee

This article discusses the concept of information and its intimate relationship with physics. After an introduction of all the necessary quantum mechanical and information theoretical concepts we analyze Landauer's principle that states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. B. Plenio , V. Vitelli

We study the energy exchange between two bosonic systems that interact via bilinear transformations in the mode operators. The first mode is considered as the thermodynamic system, while the second is regarded as the bath. This work finds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Chiara Macchiavello , Alberto Riccardi , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

I argue here that both the first and second laws of thermodynamics, generally understood to be quintessentially physical in nature, can be equally well described as being about certain types of information without the need to invoke…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-10-02 V. J. Vieland

We study nonequilibrium thermodynamics of complex information flows induced by interactions between multiple fluctuating systems. Characterizing nonequilibrium dynamics by causal networks (i.e., Bayesian networks), we obtain novel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-07 Sosuke Ito , Takahiro Sagawa

Among the emerging technologies with prophesied quantum advantage, quantum communications has already led to fascinating demonstrations -- including quantum teleportation to and from satellites. However, all optical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Maxwell Aifer , Nathan Myers , Sebastian Deffner