English
Related papers

Related papers: Physical limit to concentration sensing in a chang…

200 papers

Cross-domain few-shot object detection (CD-FSOD) aims to adapt pretrained detectors from a source domain to target domains with limited annotations, suffering from severe domain shifts and data scarcity problems. In this work, we find a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yongwei Jiang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

We derive a universal bound on the large-deviation functions of particle currents in coherent conductors. This bound depends only on the mean value of the relevant current and the total rate of entropy production required to maintain a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito

The present study focuses on the receptor driven endocytosis typical of viral entry into a cell. A locally increased density of receptors at the time of contact between the cell and the virus is necessary in this case. The virus is…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-28 T. Wiegold , S. Klinge , R. P. Gilbert , G. A. Holzapfel

The precision of a quantum sensor can overcome its classical counterpart when its constituents are entangled. In gaussian squeezed states, quantum correlations lead to a reduction of the quantum projection noise below the shot noise limit.…

We present a simple closed expression for determining the condition for Coherent Perfect Absorption derived through electromagnetic wave treatment and interface boundary conditions. Apart from providing physical insight this expression can…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-17 Sanjeeb Dey , Suneel Singh

Relaxation effects impose fundamental limitations on our ability to coherently control quantum mechanical phenomena. In this letter, we establish physical limits on how closely can a quantum mechanical system be steered to a desired target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Khaneja , B. Luy , S. J. Glaser

Quantum fluctuations in the intensity of an optical probe is noise which limits measurement precision in absorption spectroscopy. Increased probe power can offer greater precision, however, this strategy is often constrained by sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 J. Biele , S. Wollmann , J. W. Silverstone , J. C. F. Matthews , E. J. Allen

We obtain concentration estimates for the fluctuations of Coulomb gases in any dimension and in a broad temperature regime, including very small and very large temperature regimes which may depend on the number of points. We obtain a full…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Sylvia Serfaty

In this report, we derive analytical expressions for the time resolution limits of standard silicon sensors, LGADs, and 3D trench sensors. We separately examine the effects of Landau fluctuations and electronic noise. To analyze Landau…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-04 Werner Riegler

We show that the three-point skewness of concentration fluctuations is non-vanishing in free liquid diffusion, even in the limit of vanishingly small mean concentration gradients. We exploit a high-Schmidt reduction of nonlinear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Marco Bussoletti , Mirko Gallo , Amir Jafari , Gregory L. Eyink

In 1977 Berg & Purcell published a landmark paper entitled "Physics of Chemoreception" which examined how a bacterium can sense a chemical attractant in the fluid surrounding it. At small scales the attractant molecules move by Brownian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Andrew J. Bernoff , Alan E. Lindsay

Non-Hermitian dynamics has been widely studied to enhance the precision of quantum sensing; and non-reciprocity can be a powerful resource for non-Hermitian quantum sensing, as non-reciprocity allows to arbitrarily exceed the fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Liying Bao , Bo Qi , Daoyi Dong , Franco Nori

We consider the electric and magnetic field fluctuations in the vacuum state in the region external to a half-space filled with a homogeneous non-dissipative dielectric. We discuss an appropriate limit to an ideal metal and concentrate our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Nicola Bartolo , Roberto Passante

We investigate the long time behavior of a passive particle evolving in a one-dimensional diffusive random environment, with diffusion constant $D$. We consider two cases: (a) The particle is pulled forward by a small external constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-16 François Huveneers

The study of a receptor-ligand system generally relies on the analysis of its dose-response (or concentration-effect) curve, which quantifies the relation between ligand concentration and the biological effect (or cellular response) induced…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-28 Léa Sta , Michael Adamer , Carmen Molina-París

Many eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells can exhibit remarkable sensing ability under small gradient of chemical compound. In this study, we approach this phenomenon by considering the contribution of multiple ligands to the chemical kinetics…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shu-Hao Liou , Chia-Chu Chen

One of the core challenges in open-plan workspaces is to ensure a good level of concentration for the workers while performing their tasks. Hence, being able to infer concentration levels of workers will allow building designers, managers,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman , Jonathan Liono , Yongli Ren , Jeffrey Chan , Shaw Kudo , Tim Rawling , Flora D. Salim

In this paper, we apply dimensional analysis to study a diffusive molecular communication system that uses diffusing enzymes in the propagation environment to mitigate intersymbol interference. The enzymes bind to information molecules and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

Performance of optimization on quadratic problems sensitively depends on the low-lying part of the spectrum. For large (effectively infinite-dimensional) problems, this part of the spectrum can often be naturally represented or approximated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Maksim Velikanov , Dmitry Yarotsky

Sensory neuroscience seeks to understand how the brain encodes natural environments. However, neural coding has largely been studied using simplified stimuli. In order to assess whether the brain's coding strategy depend on the stimulus…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Tatyana O. Sharpee , Hiroki Sugihara , Andrei V. Kurgansky , Sergei P. Rebrik , Michael P. Stryker , Kenneth D. Miller