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Quantum mechanics still provides new unexpected effects when considering the transport of energy and information. Models of continuous time quantum walks, which implicitly use time-reversal symmetric Hamiltonians, have been intensely used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Zoltan Zimboras , Mauro Faccin , Zoltan Kadar , James Whitfield , Ben Lanyon , Jacob Biamonte

Large-scale communication networks, such as the internet, rely on routing packets of data through multiple intermediate nodes to transmit information from a sender to a receiver. In this paper, we develop a model of a quantum communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Hlér Kristjánsson , Yan Zhong , Anthony Munson , Giulio Chiribella

Distributed quantum networks are not merely information conduits but intricate systems that embody the principles of quantum mechanics. In our study, we examine the underlying mechanisms of quantum connectivity within a distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Mst Shapna Akter , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Tasmin Karim , Md. Fahim Sultan , Emran Kanaan

The question of how irreversibility can emerge as a generic phenomena when the underlying mechanical theory is reversible has been a long-standing fundamental problem for both classical and quantum mechanics. We describe a mechanism for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Cozmin Ududec , Nathan Wiebe , Joseph Emerson

Quantum state transport is an important way to study the energy or information flow. By combining the unconventional Rydberg pumping mechanism and the diagonal form of van der Waals interactions, we construct a theoretical model via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 X. X. Li , J. B. You , X. Q. Shao , Weibin Li

Due to the coupling of a quantum system to its environment energy can be transfered between the two subsystems in both directions. In the present study we consider this process in a general framework for interactions with different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Tarek Khalil , Jean Richert

We present a framework for quantifying information flow within general quantum processes. For this purpose, we introduce the signaling power of quantum channels and discuss its relevant operational properties. This function supports…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Leonardo S. V. Santos , Zhen-Peng Xu , Jyrki Piilo , Otfried Gühne

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum systems driven dissipatively by coupling them to different baths at their edges. This was possible because of the concurrent advances in the models used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Gabriel T. Landi , Dario Poletti , Gernot Schaller

We summarize basic features of quantum gravity states and processes, common to a number of related quantum gravity formalisms, and sharing a purely combinatorial and algebraic language, and a discrete geometric interpretation. We emphasize…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Daniele Oriti

Relativistic quantum information combines the informational approach to understanding and using quantum mechanics systems - quantum information - with the relativistic view of the universe. In this introductory review we examine key results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Timothy C. Ralph , Tony G. Downes

Despite various parallels between quantum states and ordinary information, quantum no-go-theorems have convinced many that there is no realistic framework that might underly quantum theory, no reality that quantum states can represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Ken Wharton

All natural things process and transform information. They receive environmental information as input, and transform it into appropriate output responses. Much of science is dedicated to building models of such systems -- algorithmic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Jayne Thompson , Andrew J. P. Garner , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu

Over the past decade quantum information theory has developed into a vigorous field of research despite the fact that quantum information, as a precise concept, is undefined. Indeed the very idea of viewing quantum states as carriers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Jozsa

Information-theoretic derivations of the formalism of quantum theory have recently attracted much attention. We analyze the axioms underlying a few such derivations and propose a conceptual framework in which, by combining several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Grinbaum

A large number of multifaceted quantum transport processes in molecular systems and physical nanosystems can be treated in terms of quantum relaxation processes which couple to one or several fluctuating environments. A thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Goychuk , Peter Hanggi

We develop a general kinetic theory framework to describe the hydrodynamics of strongly interacting, nonequilibrium quantum systems in which integrability is weakly broken, leaving a few residual conserved quantities. This framework is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

The development of quantum information theory has renewed interest in the idea that the state vector does not represent the state of a quantum system, but rather the knowledge or information that we may have on the system. I argue that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Louis Marchildon

This chapter gives an overview of transport problems where chaotic dynamics of the system plays a crucial role. We begin with single-particle transport problems and then come to conservative and then dissipative systems of identical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-15 Andrey R. Kolovsky

We employ the theoretical framework of positive operator valued measures, to study Markovian open quantum systems. In particular, we discuss how a quantum system influences its environment. Using the theory of indirect measurements, we then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Ingo Kamleitner

During recent years the interest to dynamics of quantum systems has grown considerably. Quantum many body systems out of equilibrium often manifest behavior, different from the one predicted by standard statistical mechanics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 A. A. Zvyagin