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Optical communication channels are ultimately quantum-mechanical in nature, and we must therefore look beyond classical information theory to determine their communication capacity as well as to find efficient encoding and decoding schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Felipe Lacerda , Joseph M. Renes , Volkher B. Scholz

Free-space optical communications (FSOC) are a key enabling technology for future high-capacity space-based networks. Particularly, the backbone of global communication relies on intersatellite optical links. In a previous study, the…

The Landauer principle states that any logically irreversible information processing must be accompanied by dissipation into the environment. In this study, we investigate the heat dissipation associated with finite-time information erasure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

We study the free-space propagation of products of displaced Laguerre--Gaussian beams. Each displaced factor admits an exact representation as a superposition of standard Laguerre--Gaussian beam modes through the optical analog of displaced…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-10 G. Mellado-Villaseñor , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

Optical computing systems provide an alternate hardware model which appears to be aligned with the demands of neural network workloads. However, the challenge of implementing energy efficient nonlinearities in optics -- a key requirement…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-04 N. Richardson , C. Bosch , R. P. Adams

Quantum computing has been pursued with various hardware platforms, and an optical system is one of the most reasonable choices for large-scale computation. In the optical continuous-variable computation scheme, the incorporation of…

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes are solutions of the paraxial Helmholtz equation in cylindrical coordinates and are associated with light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). It is customary to modulate such beams using phase-only…

We investigate the waveguiding properties of the optical interference pattern of two counter-propagating Laguerre-Gaussian beams. The number, helicity, radius, pitch, depth and frequencies of transverse confinement of the waveguides are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bhattacharya

We investigate the link between information and thermodynamics embodied by Landauer's principle in the open dynamics of a multipartite quantum system. Such irreversible dynamics is described in terms of a collisional model with a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 S. Lorenzo , R. McCloskey , F. Ciccarello , M. Paternostro , G. M. Palma

In the recent progress in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, information has been recognized as a kind of thermodynamic resource that can drive thermodynamic current without any direct energy injection. In this paper, we establish the framework…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-22 Shumpei Yamamoto , Sosuke Ito , Naoto Shiraishi , Takahiro Sagawa

In recent years, reversible logic has emerged as a promising computing paradigm having application in low power CMOS, quantum computing, nanotechnology, and optical computing. The classical set of gates such as AND, OR, and EXOR are not…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Himanshu Thapliyal , M. B. Srinivas

Optical tweezers which utilize structured light fields enable the rotation of trapped nanoparticles through the transfer of orbital angular momentum (OAM) from holographically generated Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes. In this research we use…

In recent years, wave-based analog computing has been at the center of attention for providing ultra-fast and power-efficient signal processing enabled by wave propagation through artificially engineered structures. Building on these…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Vahid Nikkhah , Mario Junior Mencagli , Nader Engheta

We propose and study a class of novel algorithms that aim at solving bilinear and quadratic inverse problems. Using a convex relaxation based on tensorial lifting, and applying first-order proximal algorithms, these problems could be solved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert , Kristian Bredies

Governing equations for evolution of concentration and temperature in three-component systems were derived in the framework of classical irreversible thermodynamics using Onsager variational principle and were presented for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 S. Shams Es-haghi , M. Cakmak

We extend the concept of dual unitary quantum gates to quantum lattice models in $2 + 1$ dimensions, by introducing and studying ternary unitary four-particle gates, which are unitary in time and both spatial dimensions. When used as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-07 Richard Milbradt , Lisa Scheller , Christopher Aßmus , Christian B. Mendl

In this report, a new fuzzy 2bit-AND parallel-to-OR, or simply, a fuzzy binary AND/OR (FBAR) text data compression model as an algorithm is suggested for bettering spatial locality limits on nodes during database transactions. The current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Philip B. Alipour

Future spacecraft will require a paradigm shift in the way the information is transmitted due to the continuous increase in the amount of data requiring space links. Current radiofrequency-based communication systems impose a bottleneck in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-25 Alberto Carrasco-Casado , Ramon Mata-Calvo

We develop a tensor network technique that can solve universal reversible classical computational problems, formulated as vertex models on a square lattice [Nat. Commun. 8, 15303 (2017)]. By encoding the truth table of each vertex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 Zhi-Cheng Yang , Stefanos Kourtis , Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Andrei E. Ruckenstein

Landauer erasure seems to provide a powerful link between thermodynamics and information processing (logical computation). The only logical operations that require a generation of heat are logically irreversible ones, with the minimum heat…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 O. J. E. Maroney