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The importance of Fisher information is increasing in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, as it has played a fundamental role in trade-off relations such as thermodynamic uncertainty relations and speed limits. In this work, we investigate…

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Superstatistics is an elegant framework for the description of steady-state thermodynamics, mostly used for systems with long-range interactions such as plasmas. In this work, we show that the potential energy distribution of a classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sergio Davis , Claudia Loyola , Carlos Femenías , Joaquín Peralta

We explore the thermodynamics of quantum processes (quantum channels) by axiomatically introducing the free energy for channels, defined via the quantum relative entropy with an absolutely thermal channel whose fixed output is in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Himanshu Badhani , Dhanuja G. S. , Siddhartha Das

A few decades after Hill's work on nano-thermodynamics, the development of a thermodynamic framework, to account consistently for the fluctuations of small systems due to their interactions with the surrounding environment, is still…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-23 Salvatore Calabrese , Lamberto Rondoni , Amilcare Porporato

Signaling quantum channels are fundamental to quantum communication, enabling the transfer of information from input to output states. In contrast, thermalisation erases information about the initial state. This raises a crucial question:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Yutong Luo , Simon Milz , Felix C. Binder

Resource-constrained systems are prevalent in communications. Such a system is composed of many components but only some of them can be allocated with resources such as time slots. According to the amount of information about the system,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Albert Y. S. Lam , Yanhui Geng , Victor O. K. Li

Key to biological success, the requisite variety that confronts an adaptive organism is the set of detectable, accessible, and controllable states in its environment. We analyze its role in the thermodynamic functioning of information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Alexander B. Boyd , Dibyendu Mandal , James P. Crutchfield

We investigate the dynamics and thermodynamics of a framework composed of interacting units in which parameters (temperatures and energies) assume distinct values due to the contact with distinct (cold and hot) thermal reservoirs. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-13 Iago N. Mamede , Vitória T. Henkes , Carlos E. Fiore

We initiate the study of quantifying nonlocalness of a bipartite measurement by the minimum amount of classical communication required to simulate the measurement. We derive general upper bounds, which are expressed in terms of certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 Yaoyun Shi , Yufan Zhu

We establish a rigorous connection between fundamental resource theories at the quantum scale. Correlations and entanglement constitute indispensable resources for numerous quantum information tasks. However, their establishment comes at…

Microcanonical thermodynamics studies the operations that can be performed on systems with well-defined energy. So far, this approach has been applied to classical and quantum systems. Here we extend it to arbitrary physical theories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Giulio Chiribella , Carlo Maria Scandolo

It has been shown that contact geometry is the proper framework underlying classical thermodynamics and that thermodynamic fluctuations are captured by an additional metric structure related to Fisher's Information Matrix. In this work we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 A. Bravetti , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo , F. Nettel

The statistical mechanical description of small systems staying in thermal equilibrium with an environment can be achieved by means of the Hamiltonian of mean force. In contrast to the reduced density matrix of an open quantum system, or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

We investigate classical information deficit: a candidate for measure of classical correlations emerging from thermodynamical approach initiated in [Phys. Rev. Lett 89, 180402]. It is defined as a difference between amount of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Barbara Synak , Michal Horodecki

Shared entanglement is a resource available to parties communicating over a quantum channel, much akin to public coins in classical communication protocols. Whereas shared randomness does not help in the transmission of information, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Ashwin Nayak , Julia Salzman

Microscopic thermal machines promise to play an important role in future quantum technologies. Making such devices widely applicable will require effective strategies to channel their output into easily accessible storage systems like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-02 Joshua Eglinton , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky , Kay Brandner

Quantum thermodynamics can be cast as a resource theory by considering free access to a heat bath, thereby viewing the Gibbs state at a fixed temperature as a free state and hence any other state as a resource. Here, we consider a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Uttam Singh , Michael G. Jabbour , Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Nicolas J. Cerf

We investigate the capacity of opportunistic communication in the presence of dynamic and distributed spectral activity, i.e. when the time varying spectral holes sensed by the cognitive transmitter are correlated but not identical to those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Syed A. Jafar , Sudhir Srinivasa

Passive environment assisted communication takes place via a quantum channel modeled as a unitary interaction between the information carrying system and an environment, where the latter is controlled by a passive helper, who can set its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Samad Khabbazi Oskouei , Stefano Mancini , Andreas Winter