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The MapReduce framework has firmly established itself as one of the most widely used parallel computing platforms for processing big data on tera- and peta-byte scale. Approaching it from a theoretical standpoint has proved to be…

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We establish a rigorous connection between fundamental resource theories at the quantum scale. Correlations and entanglement constitute indispensable resources for numerous quantum information tasks. However, their establishment comes at…

Monotone Boolean functions, and the monotone Boolean circuits that compute them, have been intensively studied in complexity theory. In this paper we study the structure of Boolean functions in terms of the minimum number of negations in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Eric Blais , Clément L. Canonne , Igor C. Oliveira , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

Biomolecular systems like molecular motors or pumps, transcription and translation machinery, and other enzymatic reactions can be described as Markov processes on a suitable network. We show quite generally that in a steady state the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-01 Andre C. Barato , Udo Seifert

Approximate circuits trading the power consumption for the quality of results play a key role in the development of energy-aware systems. Designing complex approximate circuits is, however, a very difficult and computationally demanding…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Milan Češka , Jiří Matyáš , Vojtech Mrazek , Tomáš Vojnar

In Boolean synthesis, we are given an LTL specification, and the goal is to construct a transducer that realizes it against an adversarial environment. Often, a specification contains both Boolean requirements that should be satisfied…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Shaull Almagor , Orna Kupferman , Yaron Velner

The token-based Brownian circuit harnesses the Brownian motion of particles for computation. The conservative join (CJoin) is a circuit element that synchronizes two Brownian particles, and its realization using repelling particles, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yasuhiro Utsumi

A standard approach to optimizing long-run running costs of discrete systems is based on minimizing the mean-payoff, i.e., the long-run average amount of resources ("energy") consumed per transition. However, this approach inherently…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Tomáš Brázdil , David Klaška , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný

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

Quantum complexity measures the difficulty of realizing a quantum process, such as preparing a state or implementing a unitary. We present an approach to quantifying the thermodynamic resources required to implement a process if the…

Random instances of feedforward Boolean circuits are studied both analytically and numerically. Evaluating these circuits is known to be a P-complete problem and thus, in the worst case, believed to be impossible to perform, even given a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-25 Jon Machta , Simon DeDeo , Stephan Mertens , Cristopher Moore

The importance of low power consumption is widely acknowledged due to the increasing use of portable devices, which require minimizing the consumption of energy. The energy in a computational system depends heavily on the software being…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-04-15 Kostas Zotos , Andreas Litke , Alexander Chatzigeorgiou , Spyros Nikolaidis , George Stephanides

The fundamental problem considered in this paper is "What is the \textit{energy} consumed for the implementation of a \emph{compressive sensing} decoding algorithm on a circuit?". Using the "information-friction" framework, we examine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Tongxin Li , Mayank Bakshi , Pulkit Grover

We present a constructive method to create quantum circuits that implement oracles $|x\rangle|y\rangle|0\rangle^k \mapsto |x\rangle|y \oplus f(x)\rangle|0\rangle^k$ for $n$-variable Boolean functions $f$ with low $T$-count. In our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Giulia Meuli , Mathias Soeken , Earl Campbell , Martin Roetteler , Giovanni De Micheli

We introduce a framework designed to analyze the thermodynamics of an abstractly defined logical computer like a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) or a Turing machine, without specifying any extraneous parameters (like rate matrices,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-29 Gülce Kardeş , David Wolpert

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

When planning transportation whose operation requires non-consumable resources, the peak demand for allocated resources is often of higher interest than the duration of resource usage. For instance, it is more cost-effective to deliver…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mariia Anapolska , Emma Ahrens , Christina Büsing , Felix Engelhardt , Timo Gersing , Corinna Mathwieser , Sabrian Schmitz , Sophia Wrede

One of the primary motivations of the research in the field of computation is to optimize the cost of computation. The major ingredient that a computer needs is the energy to run a process, i.e., the thermodynamic cost. The analysis of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Pritam Chattopadhyay , Goutam Paul

Recent understanding of the thermodynamics of small-scale systems have enabled the characterization of the thermodynamic requirements of implementing quantum processes for fixed input states. Here, we extend these results to construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Philippe Faist , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

Quantifying the complexity of quantum states that possess intrinsic structure, such as symmetry or encoding, in a fair manner constitutes a core challenge in the benchmarking of quantum technologies. This paper introduces the…

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