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Colloidal nanoparticles developed as interesting objects to establish two- or three-dimensional super-structures with properties not known from conventional bulk materials. Beyond, the properties can be tuned and quantum effects can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-30 Christian Klinke

A class of models describing the flow of information within networks via routing processes is proposed and investigated, concentrating on the effects of memory traces on the global properties. The long-term flow of information is governed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrije Markovic , Claudius Gros

The information-theoretic arguments presented in a recent publication on "Quantum discord and Maxwell's demons" are discussed, and found not to address the problem specified by Maxwell. Two interrelated and definitive exorcisms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-14 Elias P. Gyftopoulos

Information flow is central to contemporary accounts of cognition, yet its physical basis in living neural matter remains poorly specified. Here, we develop a multiscale resource-theoretical framework motivated by the \textit{thermocoherent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-14 Onur Pusuluk

In this paper, we propose to use magnetic nanoparticles as information carriers for molecular communication. This enables the use of an external magnetic field to guide information-carrying particles towards the receiver. We show that the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Wayan Wicke , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Harald Unterweger , Christoph Alexiou , Robert Schober

In this study, using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation, the water flow in carbon nanocones is studied using the TIP4P/2005 rigid water model. The results demonstrate a nonuniform dependence of the flow on the cone apex angle and…

Research toward powerful information processing systems that circumvent the interconnect bottleneck by exploiting the nonlinear evolution of multiple phase dynamics in locally connected arrays is discussed. We focus on a scheme in which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Richard A. Kiehl

In a recent paper Liang {\it et al.} [Nature {\bf 411}, 665 (2001)] showed experimentally, that metallic nanotubes, strongly coupled to external electrodes, may act as coherent molecular waveguides for electronic transport. The experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Krompiewski , J. Martinek , J. Barnas

This work is a discussion on the concept of information. We define here information as an abstraction that is able to be copied. We consider the connection between the process of copying information in quantum systems and the emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 Marcin Ostrowski

Similar to oil that acted as a basic raw material and key driving force of industrial society, information acts as a raw material and principal mover of knowledge society in the knowledge production, propagation and application. New…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic , Daniel Kade , Markus Wallmyr , Tobias Holstein , Alexander Almér

External piecewise-constant feedback control can modify energetic and entropic balances, allowing in extreme scenarios for Maxwell demon operational modes. Without specifying the actual implementation of external feedback loops, one can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-30 Gernot Schaller

A system responding to a stochastic driving signal can be interpreted as computing, by means of its dynamics, an implicit model of the environmental variables. The system's state retains information about past environmental fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-09 Susanne Still , David A. Sivak , Anthony J. Bell , Gavin E. Crooks

Exchange of information between a quantum system and its surrounding environment plays a fundamental role in the study of the dynamics of open quantum systems. Here we discuss the role of the information exchange in the non-Markovian…

This special issue collects contributions from the participants of the "Information in Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems" workshop, which cover a wide range of important problems and new approaches that lie in the intersection of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Erik M. Bollt , Jie Sun

Brownian information engines can extract work from thermal fluctuations by utilizing information. So far, the studies on Brownian information engines consider the system in a thermal bath; however, many processes in nature occur in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-26 Govind Paneru , Sandipan Dutta , Hyuk Kyu Pak

In the information interpretation of quantum mechanics, information is the most fundamental, basic entity. Every quantized system is associated with a definite discrete amount of information (cf. Zeilinger). This information content remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Svozil

An autonomous out of equilibrium Maxwell's demon is used to reverse the natural direction of the heat flux between two electric circuits kept at different temperatures and coupled by the electric thermal noise. The demon does not process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Sergio Ciliberto

We provide a general formula, based on stochastic thermodynamics, that describes the flow of information between an arbitrary number of coupled complex-valued Langevin equations. This permits to describe the transfer of information in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-09 Simone Borlenghi

With the approaching second quantum revolution, the study of quantum thermodynamics, particularly heat flow, has become even more relevant for two main reasons. First, understanding heat and other types of noise is essential for protecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Kasper Poulsen

We suggest that a single-electron transistor continuously monitored by a quantum point contact may function as a Maxwell demon when closed-loop feedback operations are applied as time-dependent modifications of the tunneling rates across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Gernot Schaller , Clive Emary , Gerold Kiesslich , Tobias Brandes