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The overhead of quantum error correction (QEC) poses a major bottleneck for realizing fault-tolerant computation. To reduce this overhead, we exploit the idea of erasure qubits, relying on an efficient conversion of the dominant noise into…

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Erasing memory is a fundamental operational task in quantum information processing, governed by Landauer's principle, which links information loss to thermodynamic work. We introduce and analyze assisted quantum erasure, where correlations…

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Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control protocols. We demonstrate that its bounds are tight and so show that the costs overwhelm those implied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-28 Gregory W. Wimsatt , Alexander B. Boyd , Paul M. Riechers , James P. Crutchfield

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology for achieving high spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication networks. In this paper, we investigate an RIS-aided single-cell multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhiyang Li , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Jingwen Zhao , Yinlu Wang , Jianfeng Shi , Chongwen Huang

Quantum error correcting (QEC) codes protect quantum information against environmental noise. Computational errors caused by the environment change the quantum state within the qubit subspace, whereas quantum erasures correspond to the loss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Luis Colmenarez , Seyong Kim , Markus Müller

We measured the energy efficiency of information erasure using silicon DRAM cells capable of counting charges on capacitors at the single-electron level. Our measurements revealed that the efficiency decreased as the erasure error…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Takase Shimizu , Kensaku Chida , Gento Yamahata , Katsuhiko Nishiguchi

Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) is a critical component for enabling data queries in superposition, which is the cornerstone of quantum algorithms. Among various QRAM architectures, the bucket-brigade model stands out due to its noise…

Reversible logic has received great attention in the recent years due to their ability to reduce the power dissipation which is the main requirement in low power digital design. It has wide applications advanced computing, low power CMOS…

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Humans learn adaptively and efficiently throughout their lives. However, incrementally learning tasks causes artificial neural networks to overwrite relevant information learned about older tasks, resulting in 'Catastrophic Forgetting'.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Gobinda Saha , Isha Garg , Aayush Ankit , Kaushik Roy

In the today's era, reversible logics are the promising technology for the designing of low power digital logic system having major application in the field of nanotechnology, quantum computation, DNA and other low power digital circuits.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-12 Pradeep Singla , Aakash Gupta , Ashutosh Bhardwaj , Pulkit Basia

Energy costs of information processing are growing exponentially. Bit erasure is a key problem in this energy-information nexus, and a number of seminal relationships have been deduced regarding the relationship between thermodynamic costs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Songela W. Chen , David T. Limmer

The transition to the fault-tolerant era exposes the limitations of homogeneous quantum systems, where no single qubit modality simultaneously offers optimal operation speed, connectivity, and scalability. In this work, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Xiang Fang , Jixuan Ruan , Sharanya Prabhu , Ang Li , Travis Humble , Dean Tullsen , Yufei Ding

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for energy-efficient, low-latency dynamic mobile edge computing (MEC), in the context of beyond 5G networks endowed with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). In our setting, new computing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

We investigate the performance of majority-logic decoding in both reversible and finite-time information erasure processes performed on macroscopic bits that contain $N$ microscopic binary units. While we show that for reversible erasure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-19 Shiqi Sheng , Tim Herpich , Giovanni Diana , Massimiliano Esposito

Power dissipation is known as the most notable limiting factor in all nano-electronic design techniques including Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA). The familiar reversible computing approach is used as a reasonably reliable solution,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Moein Sarvaghad-Moghaddam , Ali A. Orouji , Zeinab Ramezani , Iraj Sadegh Amiri , Alireza Mahdavi Nejad

The erasure of information is fundamentally an irreversible logical operation, carrying profound consequences for the energetics of computation and information processing. We investigate the thermodynamic costs associated with erasing (and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Himanshu Badhani , Dhanuja GS , Swati Choudhary , Vishal Anand , Siddhartha Das

If a quantum computer is stabilized by fault-tolerant quantum error correction (QEC), then most of its resources (qubits and operations) are dedicated to the extraction of error information. Analysis of this process leads to a set of…

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This paper focuses on developing energy-efficient online data processing strategy of wireless powered MEC systems under stochastic fading channels. In particular, we consider a hybrid access point (HAP) transmitting RF energy to and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Xian Li , Suzhi Bi , Yuan Zheng , Hui Wang

Edge computing is a promising solution for handling high-dimensional, multispectral analog data from sensors and IoT devices for applications such as autonomous drones. However, edge devices' limited storage and computing resources make it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Nastaran Darabi , Amit R. Trivedi

Electromagnetic (EM) sensing is a wide-spread contactless examination technique in science, engineering and military. However, conventional sensing systems are mostly lack of intelligence, which not only require expensive hardware and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Hao-Yang Li , Han-Ting Zhao , Meng-Lin Wei , Heng-Xin Ruan , Ya Shuang , Tie Jun Cui , Lianlin Li