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We consider a bipartite quantum conductor and discuss the joint probability distribution of particle number in a subsystem and the self-information associated with the reduced density matrix of the subsystem. By extending the multi-contour…

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Estimating vibrational entropy is a significant challenge in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics due to its reliance on quantum mechanical properties. This paper introduces a quantum algorithm designed to estimate vibrational entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Shangjie Guo , Corneliu Buda , Nathan Wiebe

We illustrate how it is possible to calculate the quantum gravitational effects on the spectra of primordial scalar/tensor perturbations starting from the canonical, Wheeler-De Witt, approach to quantum cosmology. The composite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-28 Alexander Y. Kamenshchik , Alessandro Tronconi , Giovanni Venturi

We provide a framework for a perturbative evaluation of the reduced density matrix. The method is based on a path integral in the analytically continued spacetime. It suggests an alternative to the holographic and `standard' replica trick…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Michael Smolkin

In this work we develop and apply a path integral formulation for the microscopic degrees of freedom obeying stochastic differential equations to an active Brownian particle (ABP) trapped in a harmonic potential. The formalism allows to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Carsten Littek , Mike Brandt , Falko Ziebert

We study the problem of generating a random variate $X$ from a finite discrete probability distribution $P$ using an entropy source of independent fair coin flips. A classic result from Knuth and Yao shows that the optimal expected number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thomas L. Draper , Feras A. Saad

We provide a consistent first principles prescription to compute gravitational R\'enyi entropy using Hayward corner terms. For Euclidean solutions to Einstein gravity, we compute R\'enyi entropy of Hartle--Hawking and fixed--area states by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-28 Jani Kastikainen , Andrew Svesko

We derive a systematic approach to the thermodynamics of quantum systems based on the underlying symmetry groups. We show that the entropy of a system can be described in terms of group-theoretical quantities that are largely independent of…

Open quantum systems are defined as ordinary unitary quantum theories coupled to a set of external degrees of freedom, which are introduced to take on the r\^ole of an unobserved environment. Here we study examples of open quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Pietro Pelliconi , Julian Sonner

In order to compute the entanglement entropy for a given region in a theory with an Einstein gravity dual, the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription tells us that we must compute the the area of an extremal surface anchored to the entangling region.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Alvaro Veliz-Osorio

We present an algorithm to estimate the configurational entropy $S$ of a polymer. The algorithm uses the statistics of coincidences among random samples of configurations and is related to the catch-tag-release method for estimation of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-27 Ilya Nemenman , Michael E. Wall , Charlie E. Strauss

We compute the subregion entanglement entropy for a doubly holographic black string model. This system consists of a non-gravitating bath and a gravitating brane, where we incorporate dynamic gravity by adding a DGP term. This opens up a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Carlos Perez-Pardavila

Integration By Parts (IBP) is an important method for computing Feynman integrals. This work describes a formulation of the theory involving a set of differential equations in parameter space, and especially the definition and study of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-07 Barak Kol

Accounting for the non-normality of asset returns remains challenging in robust portfolio optimization. In this article, we tackle this problem by assessing the risk of the portfolio through the "amount of randomness" conveyed by its…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-07-03 Nathan Lassance , Frédéric Vrins

We derive a graph expansion for the thermal partition function of solvable two-dimensional models with boundaries. This expansion of the integration measure over the virtual particles winding around the time cycle is obtained with the help…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Ivan Kostov , Didina Serban , Dinh-Long Vu

We give a novel characterization of the Euclidean quantum field theory with exponential interaction $\nu$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$ through a renormalized integration by parts (IbP) formula, or otherwise said via an Euclidean Dyson-Schwinger…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Francesco C. De Vecchi , Massimiliano Gubinelli , Mattia Turra

The distribution function of the free energy fluctuations in one-dimensional directed polymers with $\delta$-correlated random potential is studied by mapping the replicated problem to the $N$-particle quantum boson system with attractive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Victor Dotsenko

Particle production in integrable field theories may exist depending on the vacuum around which excitations are defined. To tackle this and analogous issues with conventional field theoretical tools, we consider the integrable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 George Georgiou , Konstantinos Sfetsos

An algorithm for calculating the spectral intensity of radiation due to the coherent addition of many particles with arbitrary trajectories is described. Direct numerical integration of the Lienard-Wiechert potentials, in the far-field, for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-23 A. G. R. Thomas

This paper studies composite quantum systems, like atom-cavity systems and coupled optical resonators, in the absence of external driving by resorting to methods from quantum field theory. Going beyond the rotating wave approximation, it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andreas Kurcz , Antonio Capolupo , Almut Beige , Emilio Del Giudice , Giuseppe Vitiello