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Statistical divergences are important tools in data analysis, information theory, and statistical physics, and there exist well known inequalities on their bounds. However, in many circumstances involving temporal evolution, one needs…

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Entanglement-assisted classical communication and transmission of a quantum system are the two quantum resources for information processing. Many information tasks can be performed using either quantum resource. However, this equivalence is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Armin Tavakoli , Marcin Pawlowski , Marek Zukowski , Mohamed Bourennane

The resource theory of thermal operations, an established model for small-scale thermodynamics, provides an extension of equilibrium thermodynamics to nonequilibrium situations. On a lattice of any dimension with any translation-invariant…

The amount of information transmissible through a communications channel is determined by the noise characteristics of the channel and by the quantities of available transmission resources. In classical information theory, the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikio Fujiwara , Masahiro Takeoka , Jun Mizuno , Masahide Sasaki

Previous work on the classical information capacities of bosonic channels has established the capacity of the single-user pure-loss channel, bounded the capacity of the single-user thermal-noise channel, and bounded the capacity region of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Saikat Guha , Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Baris I. Erkmen

Information flow is central to contemporary accounts of cognition, yet its physical basis in living neural matter remains poorly specified. Here, we develop a multiscale resource-theoretical framework motivated by the \textit{thermocoherent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-14 Onur Pusuluk

The "thermal operations" framework developed in past works is used to model the evolution of microscopic quantum systems in contact with thermal baths. Here we extend this model to bipartite devices with one part acting as a control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-13 Varun Narasimhachar , Gilad Gour

When reformulated as a resource theory, thermodynamics can analyze system behaviors in the single-shot regime. In this, the work required to implement state transitions is bounded by {\alpha}-Renyi divergences and so differs in identifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Jinghao Lyu , Alexander B. Boyd , James P. Crutchfield

Several recent results on thermodynamics have been obtained using the tools of quantum information theory and resource theories. So far, the resource theories utilised to describe thermodynamics have assumed the existence of an infinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Carlo Sparaciari , Jonathan Oppenheim , Tobias Fritz

In this paper, we consider the energy cost of communicating using molecular communication. In a simplified scenario, we show that the energy bound in Landauer's principle can be achieved, implying that molecular communication can approach…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andrew W. Eckford , Benjamin Kuznets-Speck , Michael Hinczewski , Peter J. Thomas

Current advancements in communication equipment demand the investigation of classical information transfer over quantum channels, by encompassing realistic scenarios in finite dimensions. To address this issue, we develop a framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sudipta Mondal , Pritam Halder , Saptarshi Roy , Aditi Sen De

The presence of correlations in physical systems can be a valuable resource for many quantum information tasks. They are also relevant in thermodynamic transformations, and their creation is usually associated to some energetic cost. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Facundo Sapienza , Federico Cerisola , Augusto J. Roncaglia

We prove that several known upper bounds on the classical capacity of thermal and additive noise bosonic channels are actually strong converse rates. Our results strengthen the interpretation of these upper bounds, in the sense that we now…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bhaskar Roy Bardhan , Mark M. Wilde

The Landauer's principle, a cornerstone of information thermodynamics, provides a fundamental lower bound on the energetic cost of information erasure in terms of the information content change. However, its traditional formulation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yuanyuan Xiao , Jian-Hua Jiang , Junjie Liu

Quantum instruments describe both the classical output and the updated quantum state in a measurement process. To do this in a non-trivial way, instruments must have the capability to interact coherently with the state that they measure.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Chung-Yun Hsieh , Armin Tavakoli , Huan-Yu Ku , Paul Skrzypczyk

We introduce the idea of weakly coherent collisional models, where the elements of an environment interacting with a system of interest are prepared in states that are approximately thermal, but have an amount of coherence proportional to a…

Capacity of a quantum channel characterizes the limits of reliable communication through a noisy quantum channel. This fundamental information theoretic question is very well studied specially in the setting of many independent uses of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

Quantum resources, such as entanglement or quantum communication, offer significant communication advantages in information processing. We develop an operational framework for realizing these communication advantages in resource-constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Brian Doolittle , Felix Leditzky , Eric Chitambar

Thermal operations are quantum channels that have taken a prominent role in deriving fundamental thermodynamic limitations in quantum systems. We show that these channels are uniquely characterized by a purely quantum information theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Seok Hyung Lie , Jeongrak Son , Paul Boes , Nelly H. Y. Ng , Henrik Wilming

We formulate a thermodynamic theory applicable to both classical and quantum systems. These systems are depicted as thermodynamic system-bath models capable of handling isothermal, isentropic, thermostatic, and entropic processes. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-25 Shoki Koyanagi , Yoshitaka Tanimura