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The problem of estimating entropy production from incomplete information in stochastic thermodynamics is essential for theory and experiments. Whereas a considerable amount of work has been done on this topic, arguably, most of it is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-17 Pedro E. Harunari , Carlos E. Fiore , Andre C. Barato

This paper presents convergence analysis of a novel data-driven feedback control algorithm designed for generating online controls based on partial noisy observational data. The algorithm comprises a particle filter-enabled state estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Siming Liang , Hui Sun , Richard Archibald , Feng Bao

Quantification of information content and its temporal variation in intracellular calcium spike trains in neurons helps one understand functions such as memory, learning, and cognition. Such quantification could also reveal pathological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Sathish Ande , Srinivas Avasarala , Jayanth R Regatti , Neha Pandey , Sarpras Swain , Ajith Karunarathne , Lopamudra Giri , Soumya Jana

We study the dynamics of overdamped Brownian particles diffusing in conservative force fields and undergoing stochastic resetting to a given location with a generic space-dependent rate of resetting. We present a systematic approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-15 Édgar Roldán , Shamik Gupta

We consider a bipartite quantum conductor and analyze fluctuations of heat quantity in a subsystem as well as self-information associated with the reduced-density matrix of the subsystem. By exploiting the multi-contour Keldysh technique,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Yasuhiro Utsumi

Firstly, we calculate quantitatively decrease of entropy by the known formulas in the ordering phenomena and nucleation of thermodynamics of microstructure. They show again that a necessary condition of decrease of entropy in isolated…

General Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Yi-Fang Chang

The information on a quantum process acquired through measurements plays a crucial role in the determination of its non-equilibrium thermodynamic properties. We report on the experimental inference of the stochastic entropy production rate…

Closing feedback loops fast and over long distances is key to emerging applications; for example, robot motion control and swarm coordination require update intervals of tens of milliseconds. Low-power wireless technology is preferred for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Fabian Mager , Dominik Baumann , Romain Jacob , Lothar Thiele , Sebastian Trimpe , Marco Zimmerling

We derive general expressions for the free energy, entropy production and entropy extraction rates for a Brownian particle that walks in a viscous medium where the dynamics of its motion is governed by the Langevin equation. It is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Mesfin Asfaw Taye

We consider motion of an underdamped Brownian particle in a washboard potential that is subjected to an unbiased time-periodic external field. While in the limiting deterministic system in dependence of the strength and phase of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-07 D. Hennig , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

This paper considers the problem of online feedback optimization to solve the AC Optimal Power Flow in real-time in power grids. This consists in continuously driving the controllable power injections and loads towards the optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Miguel Picallo , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler

Dynamical aspects of information-theoretic and entropic measures of quantum systems are studied. First, we show that for the time-dependent harmonic oscillator, as well as for the charged particle in certain time-varying electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 K. Andrzejewski

In most interacting many-body systems associated with some "emergent phenomena," we can identify sub-groups of degrees of freedom that relax on dramatically different time-scales. Time-scale separation of this kind is particularly helpful…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-21 Pavel Chvykov , Jeremy England

The matrix-based R\'enyi's entropy allows us to directly quantify information measures from given data, without explicit estimation of the underlying probability distribution. This intriguing property makes it widely applied in statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Shujian Yu , Hong Chen , Chen Li

The performance, reliability, cost, size and energy usage of computing systems can be improved by one or more orders of magnitude by the systematic use of modern control and optimization methods. Computing systems rely on the use of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Eric C. Kerrigan

We show how to switch on and off the ratchet potential of a collective Brownian motor, depending only on the position of the particles, in order to attain a current higher than or at least equal to that induced by any periodic flashing.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-19 L. Dinis , J. M. R. Parrondo , F. J. Cao

A finite cycle time information engine based on a two-level system in contact with a thermal reservoir is studied analytically. The model for the engine incorporates an error in measuring the system's state and time delay between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-13 Kiran V , Toby Joseph

Optimisation problems in science and engineering typically involve finding the ground state (i.e. the minimum energy configuration) of a cost function with respect to many variables. If the variables are corrupted by noise then this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Nicholas Chancellor , Szilard Szoke , Walter Vinci , Gabriel Aeppli , Paul A. Warburton

In this paper, we present an impedance control design for multi-variable linear and nonlinear robotic systems. The control design considers force and state feedback to improve the performance of the closed loop. Simultaneous feedback of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Alejandro Donaire , Luigi Villani , Fanny Ficuciello , Juan Tomassini , Bruno Siciliano

Shannon Entropy is the preeminent tool for measuring the level of uncertainty (and conversely, information content) in a random variable. In the field of communications, entropy can be used to express the information content of given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Bill Kay , Audun Myers , Thad Boydston , Emily Ellwein , Cameron Mackenzie , Iliana Alvarez , Erik Lentz