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Despite significant progress in quantum computing in recent years, executing quantum circuits for practical problems remains challenging due to error-prone quantum hardware. Hence, quantum error correction becomes essential but induces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Tobias Forster , Nils Quetschlich , Mathias Soeken , Robert Wille

Many synthesis approaches for reversible and quantum logic have been proposed so far. However, most of them generate circuits with respect to simple metrics, i.e. gate count or quantum cost. On the other hand, to physically realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 Robert Wille , Mehdi Saeedi , Rolf Drechsler

We implement a recently proposed event-triggered networked MPC approach on industrial hardware to analyze its practical relevance. There exist several alternatives for such an implementation that differ with respect to the distribution of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Patrik Simon Berner , Martin Mönnigmann

From thermodynamics point of view, in this era of aiming at energy conservation and sustainability, we need to develop more accurate ways to design thermal power, cooling and heat pump cycles. It has been the general practice in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-23 GA Mansoori

Understanding the computational power of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is of both fundamental and practical importance to quantum information science. Here, we address the question of whether error-uncorrected noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Kyungjoo Noh , Liang Jiang , Bill Fefferman

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations unveil useful connections between fluctuations in thermal systems and entropy production. This work extends these ideas to the disparate field of \textit{zero temperature} quantum mesoscopic physics where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Ariane Soret , Ohad Shpielberg , Eric Akkermans

We investigate computing models that are presented as families of finite computing devices with a uniformity condition on the entire family. Examples of such models include Boolean circuits, membrane systems, DNA computers, chemical…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Niall Murphy , Damien Woods

The theory of thermal macroeconomics (TM) analyses economic phenomena within the mathematical framework of classical thermodynamics, using a set of axioms that apply to the purely macroscopic aspects of an economy [CM]. The theory shows…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-12 Yihang Luo , Robert S. MacKay , Nick Chater

In the area of query complexity of Boolean functions, the most widely studied cost measure of an algorithm is the worst-case number of queries made by it on an input. Motivated by the most natural cost measure studied in online algorithms,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alison Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Nikhil S. Mande

We give an $\widetilde{O}({m^{3/2 - 1/762} \log (U+W))}$ time algorithm for minimum cost flow with capacities bounded by $U$ and costs bounded by $W$. For sparse graphs with general capacities, this is the first algorithm to improve over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Kyriakos Axiotis , Aleksander Mądry , Adrian Vladu

There is increasing interest in the development of gate-based quantum circuits for the training of machine learning models. Yet, little is understood concerning the parameters of circuit design, and the effects of noise and other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Patrick Selig , Niall Murphy , Ashwin Sundareswaran R , David Redmond , Simon Caton

The minimum number of NOT gates in a Boolean circuit computing a Boolean function is called the inversion complexity of the function. In 1957, A. A. Markov determined the inversion complexity of every Boolean function and proved that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-01 V. V. Kochergin , A. V. Mikhailovich

In this paper an analysis of the Stirling cycle in thermoeconomic terms is developed using the entropy generation. In the thermoeconomic optimization of an irreversible Stirling heat pump cycle the F function has been introduced to evaluate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 U. Lucia , G. Gervino

The minimum amount of thermodynamic work required in order to implement a quantum computation or a quantum state transformation can be quantified using frameworks based on the resource theory of thermodynamics, deeply rooted in the works of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Philippe Faist

Following up on the recently published circuit theory for thermodynamic devices, we consider networks of Thermo-Electric Converters (TECs) in stationary non-equilibrium. Assuming constant thermoelectric properties, the integration over a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-30 Paul Raux , Christophe Goupil , Gatien Verley

In the Minimum Clique Routing Problem on Cycles \textsc{MCRPC} we are given a cycle together with a set of demands (weighted origin-destination pairs) and the goal is to route all the pairs minimizing the maximum weighted clique of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mariana Escalante , Martín Matamala , Iván Rapaport , Paola Tolomei , Luis Miguel Torres

Due to its non-crystalline nature, the glassy state has remained one the most exciting scientific challenges. To study such materials, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations have been extensively used because they provide a direct view into…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Mathieu Bauchy

The matching problem is a notorious combinatorial optimization problem that has attracted for many years the attention of the statistical physics community. Here we analyze the Euclidean version of the problem, i.e. the optimal matching…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-11 Carlo Lucibello , Giorgio Parisi , Gabriele Sicuro

Given a set of discrete probability distributions, the minimum entropy coupling is the minimum entropy joint distribution that has the input distributions as its marginals. This has immediate relevance to tasks such as entropic causal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Spencer Compton , Dmitriy Katz , Benjamin Qi , Kristjan Greenewald , Murat Kocaoglu

The problem of constructing hazard-free Boolean circuits (those avoiding electronic glitches) dates back to the 1940s and is an important problem in circuit design and even in cybersecurity. We show that a DeMorgan circuit is hazard-free if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Stasys Jukna