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Heating and cooling load calculation based on dynamic models is widely used in simulation software and it is the method recommended by ASHRAE and CEN. The principle is to make the heat balance for the air volume of a room space considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Christian Ghiaus

We study the principle of information causality for the set of extremal correlations in the tripartite scenario. We show that all but one nonlocal extremal correlations in this scenario violate information causality. This undetected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-01 Tzyh Haur Yang , Daniel Cavalcanti , Mafalda Almeida , Colin Teo , Valerio Scarani

Identifying which correlations among distant observers are possible within our current description of Nature, based on quantum mechanics, is a fundamental problem in Physics. Recently, information concepts have been proposed as the key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Rodrigo Gallego , Lars Erik Würflinger , Antonio Acín , Miguel Navascués

Recent theoretical progress in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, linking the physical principle of Maximum Entropy Production ("MEP") to the information-theoretical "MaxEnt" principle of scientific inference, together with conjectures from…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Peter Martin

Information is instrumental in our understanding of thermodynamics. Their interplay has been studied through completely degenerate Hamiltonians whereby the informational contributions to thermodynamic transformations can be isolated. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Benjamin Stratton , Chung-Yun Hsieh , Paul Skrzypczyk

The heat dissipation in quantum metrology represents not only an unavoidable problem towards practical applications of quantum sensing devices but also a fundamental relationship between thermodynamics and quantum metrology. However, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai

We introduce a constructive framework for assigning thermodynamic structure to an arbitrary data system from its measured microstates. Starting from an empirical distribution over configurations, we first infer a data-driven energy function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 George-Rafael Domenikos , Lock Yue Chew , Victoria Leong

Recently, we have presented some simple arguments supporting the existence of certain complementarity between thermodynamic quantities of temperature and energy, an idea suggested by Bohr and Heinsenberg in the early days of Quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Velazquez , S. Curilef

Quantum resources such as entanglement, information redundancy, and coherence enable revolutionary advantages but obey fundamental tradeoffs. We present a unified geometric constraint governing three core operational tasks: teleportation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Justin K. Edmondson

Understanding under which conditions physical systems thermalize is a long-standing question in many-body physics. While generic quantum systems thermalize, there are known instances where thermalization is hindered, for example in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Carlo Sparaciari , Marcel Goihl , Paul Boes , Jens Eisert , Nelly Huei Ying Ng

(abridged) In this paper, we present the issues we consider as essential as far as the statistical mechanics of finite systems is concerned. In particular, we emphasis our present understanding of phase transitions in the framework of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-20 P. Chomaz , F. Gulminelli

Connections between information theory and thermodynamics have proven to be very useful to establish bounding limits for physical processes. Ideas such as Landauer's erasure principle and information assisted work extraction have greatly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Kaonan Micadei , Roberto M. Serra , Lucas C. Celeri

The tradeoff relation between speed and cost is a central issue in designing fast and efficient information processing devices. We derive an achievable bound on thermodynamic cost for obtaining information through finite-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-16 Rihito Nagase , Takahiro Sagawa

The standard formulation of thermostatistics, being based on the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution and logarithmic Shannon entropy, describes idealized uncorrelated systems with extensive energies and short-range interactions. In this letter, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 S. N. Saadatmand , Tim Gould , E. G. Cavalcanti , J. A. Vaccaro

During the past three decades investigators have unveiled a number of deep connections between physical information and black holes whose consequences for ordinary systems go beyond what has been deduced purely from the axioms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob D. Bekenstein

On the one hand, the dissipated heat of a thermodynamic work extraction process upper bounds the non-predictive information, which the associated system encodes about its environment. Thus, emergent information processing capabilities can…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-10 Kai Ueltzhöffer

The Kullback-Leibler inequality is a way of comparing any two density matrices. A technique to set up the density matrix for a physical system is to use the maximum entropy principle, given the entropy as a functional of the density matrix,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. K. Rajagopal , R. W. Rendell , Sumiyoshi Abe

This is an ongoing review on the idea that the phase space information loss at causal horizons is the key ingredient of major physical laws. Assuming that information is fundamental and the information propagates with finite velocity, one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-31 Jae-Weon Lee

The correlations that can be observed between a set of variables depend on the causal structure underpinning them. Causal structures can be modeled using directed acyclic graphs, where nodes represent variables and edges denote functional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Rafael Chaves , Christian Majenz , David Gross

We propose a thermodynamic formalism, within the particle-frame, for the energy-momentum tensor of irreversible anisotropic imperfect fluids subject to causality. Building on the Israel-Stewart extension of Eckart's theory, we further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-09 José Díaz Polanco , José Ayala , Luis Viza