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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

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

Quantum mechanics and information theory are among the most important scientific discoveries of the last century. Although these two areas initially developed separately it has emerged that they are in fact intimately related. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Vedral

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

Quantum parallelism implies a spread of information over the space in contradistinction to the classical mechanical situation where the information is "centered" on a fixed trajectory of a classical particle. This means that a quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Granik

Recently, new insights have been obtained by jointly studying communication and resource theory. This interplay consequently serves as a potential platform for interdisciplinary studies. To continue this line, we analyze the role of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Chung-Yun Hsieh

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

Advantages of quantum effects in several technologies, such as computation and communication, have already been well appreciated, and some devices, such as quantum computers and communication links, exhibiting superiority to their classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Aslı Tuncer , Özgür E. Müstecaplioğlu

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

In this paper we present an analysis of information transfer based on Landauer's principle (i.e. erasure of information is associated with an increase in entropy), as well as considerations of analyticity and causality. We demonstrate that…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael C. Parker , Stuart D. Walker

An important step to incorporate information in the second law of thermodynamics was done by Landauer, showing that the erasure of information implies an increase in heat. Most attempts to justify Landauer's erasure principle are based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-04 Xavier Oriols , Hrvoje Nikolić

We theoretically investigate how information flows when two particles interact with each other. Understanding the physical mechanisms of directional information flow is crucial for advancing information thermodynamics and stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Tenta Tani

The heat current across a quantum harmonic system connected to reservoirs at different temperatures is given by the Landauer formula, in terms of an integral over phonon frequencies \omega, of the energy transmittance T(\omega). There are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Suman G. Das , Abhishek Dhar

We present novel results that relate energy and information transfer with sensitivity to initial conditions in chaotic multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. We show the relation among Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, Lyapunov exponents, and upper…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ch. G. Antonopoulos , E. Bianco-Martinez , M. S. Baptista

The theory of noncommutative dynamical entropy and quantum symbolic dynamics for quantum dynamical systems is analised from the point of view of quantum information theory. Using a general quantum dynamical system as a communication channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert Alicki

Landauer's "principle" claims that erasing one bit of information necessarily dissipates at least Tln2 of heat into the surroundings, making a possibly logically irreversible operation also thermodynamically irreversible. It is commonly…

General Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Didier Lairez

The fundamental question of how information spreads in closed quantum many-body systems is often addressed through the lens of the bipartite entanglement entropy, a quantity that describes correlations in a comprehensive (nonlocal) way.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-06 Andrea Pizzi , Daniel Malz , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Johannes Knolle

Landauer's principle, often regarded as the foundation of the thermodynamics of information processing, holds that any logically irreversible manipulation of information, such as the erasure of a bit or the merging of two computation paths,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 Charles H. Bennett

The information-thermodynamics link is revisited, going back to the analysis of Szilard's engine. It is argued that instead of equivalence rather complementarity of physical entropy and information theoretical one is a correct concept.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 Robert Alicki

Quantum Teleportation is the key communication functionality of the Quantum Internet, allowing the "transmission' of qubits without either the physical transfer of the particle storing the qubit or the violation of the quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Angela Sara Cacciapuoti , Marcello Caleffi , Rodney Van Meter , Lajos Hanzo