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A controlled quantum system can alter its environment by feedback, leading to reduced-entropy states of the environment and to improved system coherence. Here, using a quantum dot electron spin as control and probe, we prepare the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 G. Éthier-Majcher , D. Gangloff , R. Stockill , E. Clarke , M. Hugues , C. Le Gall , M. Atatüre

In recent advances in finite-time thermodynamics, optimization of entropy production required for finite-time information processing is an important issue. In this work, we consider finite-time feedback processes in classical discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Rihito Nagase , Takahiro Sagawa

The theory of stochastic resetting asserts that restarting a stochastic process can expedite its completion. In this paper, we study the escape process of a Brownian particle in an open Hamiltonian system that suffers noise-enhanced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-23 Julia Cantisán , Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesús M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

The transport of a walker in rocking feedback-controlled ratchets are investigated. The walker consists of two coupled "feet" that allow the interchange of the order of the particles while the walker moves. In the underdamped case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-09 Tianfu Gao , Zhigang Zheng , Jincan Chen

We analyze the thermodynamic cost of a logically reversible Brownian Turing machine operating in the first-passage time protocol based on the stochastic thermodynamics of resetting. In this framework, the thermodynamic cost of computation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-01 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Dimitry Golubev , Ferdinand Peper

In the article Phys. Rev. E 106, 054617 "Harvesting information to control non-equilibrium states of active matter", the authors study the transition from one non-equilibrium steady-state (NESS) to another NESS by changing the correlated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-24 Antoine Bérut

We present a formulation of measurement-based feedback control of a single quantum particle in one spatial dimension. An arbitrary linear combination of the position and momentum of the particle is continuously monitored, and feedback…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Amy Rouillard , Anirudh Reddy , Humairah Bassa , Shamik Maharaj , Lajos Diosi , Thomas Konrad

We demonstrate that Shannon's information entropy and the thermodynamic entropy of Boltzmann and Gibbs are quantitatively equivalent for real condensed-matter systems. By interpreting atomic configurations as information sources, we compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Dallin Fisher , Qi-Jun Hong

Many-body unitary dynamics interspersed with repeated measurements display a rich phenomenology hallmarked by measurement-induced phase transitions. Employing feedback-control operations that steer the dynamics toward an absorbing state, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 Piotr Sierant , Xhek Turkeshi

Finite-time optimal feedback control for flow networks under information constraints is studied. By utilizing the framework of multi-parametric linear programming, it is demonstrated that when cost/constraints can be modeled or approximated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Saeid Jafari , Ketan Savla

We investigate the transient times for the onset of control of steady states by time-delayed feedback. The optimization of control by minimising the transient time before control becomes effective is discussed analytically and numerically,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-12-10 Robert C. Hinz , Philipp Hövel , Eckehard Schöll

The measurement-based feedback (MBF) control offers several powerful means for preparing the desired target quantum state. Therefore, it is important to investigate fundamental properties of MBF. In particular, how the entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Kohei Kobayashi

In a thermodynamic process with measurement and feedback, the second law of thermodynamics is no longer valid. In its place, various second-law-like inequalities have been advanced that each incorporate a distinct additional term accounting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jordan M. Horowitz , Henrik Sandberg

We study a two-level system controlled in a discrete feedback loop, modeling both the system and the controller in terms of stochastic Markov processes. We find that the extracted work, which is known to be bounded from above by the mutual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jaegon Um , Haye Hinrichsen , Chulan Kwon , Hyunggyu Park

Quantum information scrambling refers to the loss of local recoverability of quantum information, which has found widespread attention from high energy physics to quantum computing. In the present analysis we propose a possible starting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

In this paper, we discuss the relationships between capacity of control in entropy theory and intrinsic properties in control theory for a class of finite dimensional stochastic dynamical systems described by a linear stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Salah H. Abid , Uday J. Quaez

We propose a general framework to study transformations that drive an underdamped Brownian particle in contact with a thermal bath from an equilibrium state to a new one in an arbitrarily short time. To this end, we make use of a time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-21 Marie Chupeau , Sergio Ciliberto , David Guéry-Odelin , Emmanuel Trizac

By controlling in real-time the variance of the radiation pressure exerted on an optically trapped microsphere, we engineer temperature protocols that shortcut thermal relaxation when transferring the microsphere from one thermal…

We analyze the rectified motion of a Brownian particle in a confined environment. We show the emergence of strong cooperativity between the inherent rectification of the ratchet mechanism and the entropic bias of the fluctuations caused by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , J. Miguel Rubi

In this study, we explore the information capacity of open quantum systems, focusing on the effective channels formed by the subsystem of random quantum circuits and quantum Hamiltonian evolution. By analyzing the subsystem information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Yu-Qin Chen , Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang