English
Related papers

Related papers: Generalized Continuous Maxwell Demons

200 papers

Feedback can be utilized to convert information into useful work, making it an effective tool for increasing the performance of thermodynamic engines. Using feedback reversibility as a guiding principle, we devise a method for designing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jordan M. Horowitz , Juan M. R. Parrondo

We propose and analyze a process that extracts useful work from a single active particle maintained at constant temperature in a harmonic potential by measuring the relative sign of the self-propulsion and the confining force and then…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-09 Grzegorz Szamel

Power management in multi-server data centers~especially at scale is a vital issue of increasing importance in cloud computing paradigm. Existing studies mostly consider thresholds on the number of idle servers to switch the servers on or…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Behzad Chitsaz , Ahmad Khonsari , Masoumeh Moradian , Aresh Dadlani , Mohammad Sadegh Talebi

Workload characterization is an integral part of performance analysis of high performance computing (HPC) systems. An understanding of workload properties sheds light on resource utilization and can be used to inform performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Nikolay A. Simakov , Joseph P. White , Robert L. DeLeon , Steven M. Gallo , Matthew D. Jones , Jeffrey T. Palmer , Benjamin Plessinger , Thomas R. Furlani

In both high-performance computing (HPC) environments and the public cloud, the duration of time to retrieve or save your results is simultaneously unpredictable and important to your over all resource budget. It is generally accepted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-21 R. Henwood , N. W. Watkins , S. C. Chapman , R. McLay

Quantum Szilard engine constitutes an adequate interplay of thermodynamics, information theory and quantum mechanics. Szilard engines are in general operated by a Maxwell's Demon where Landauer's principle resolves the apparent paradoxes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Alhun Aydin , Altug Sisman , Ronnie Kosloff

Single-Hessian Gaussian wavepacket dynamics (GWD) significantly reduces the computational burden of Heller's local harmonic GWD, while maintaining comparable accuracy in approximating vibronic spectra. Here, we provide a new, symplectic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Davide Barbiero , Jiří J. L. Vaníček

We consider the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm driven by a general stochastic sequence, including i.i.d noise and random walk on an arbitrary graph, among others; and analyze it in the asymptotic sense. Specifically, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jie Hu , Vishwaraj Doshi , Do Young Eun

Recently, the concept of daemonic ergotropy has been introduced to quantify the maximum energy that can be obtained from a quantum system through an ancilla-assisted work extraction protocol based on information gain via projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 Fabian Bernards , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne , Mauro Paternostro

Landauer's Principle states that the energy cost of information processing must exceed the product of the temperature and the change in Shannon entropy of the information-bearing degrees of freedom. However, this lower bound is achievable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-01 A. B. Boyd , A. Patra , C. Jarzynski , J. P. Crutchfield

Stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) has been widely used in many machine learning and statistical applications. Despite the observed empirical benefits of SGDM over traditional SGD, the theoretical understanding of the role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Kejie Tang , Weidong Liu , Yichen Zhang , Xi Chen

Schedulability bounds not only serve as efficient tests to decide schedulability of real-time task systems but also reveal insights about the worst-case performance of scheduling algorithms. Different from sequential real-time task systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Xu Jiang , Nan Guan , Maolin Yang , Yue Tang , Wang Yi

The optimal efficiency of quantum (or classical) heat engines whose heat baths are $n$-particle systems is given by the information geometry and the strong large deviation. We give the optimal work extraction process as a concrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Hiroyasu Tajima , Masahito Hayashi

Applications in machine learning, optimization, and control require the sequential selection of a few system elements, such as sensors, data, or actuators, to optimize the system performance across multiple time steps. However, in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-17 Vasileios Tzoumas , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

As supercomputers grow in size and complexity, power efficiency has become a critical challenge, particularly in understanding GPU power consumption within modern HPC workloads. This work addresses this challenge by presenting a data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Melanie Cornelius , Greg Cross , Shilpika Shilpika , Matthew T. Dearing , Zhiling Lan

Worldwide, Geo-distributed Data Centers (GDCs) provide computing and storage services for massive workflow applications, resulting in high electricity costs that vary depending on geographical locations and time. How to reduce electricity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Shuang Wang , He Zhang , Tianxing Wu , Yueyou Zhang , Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng

When engineering microscopic machines, increasing efficiency can often come at a price of reduced reliability due to the impact of stochastic fluctuations. Here we develop a general method for performing multi-objective optimisation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Harry J. D. Miller , Mohammad Mehboudi

A Maxwell's demon is a device that gets information and trades it in for thermodynamic advantage, in apparent (but not actual) contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. Quantum-mechanical versions of Maxwell's demon exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Seth Lloyd

We distinguish traditional implementations of autonomous Maxwell demons from related linear devices that were recently proposed, not relying on the notions of measurements and feedback control. In both cases a current seems to flow against…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Nahuel Freitas , Massimiliano Esposito

With the increasing interest for the control of the system at the nano and mesoscopic scales, studies have been focused on the limit of the energy dissipation in an open system by refining the concept of the Maxwell's demon. The well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Qian Zeng , Jin Wang