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We present a feedback protocol that is able to confine a system to a single micro-state without heat dissipation. The protocol adjusts the Hamiltonian of the system in such a way that the Bayesian posterior distribution after measurement is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 Léo Granger , Luis Dinis , Jordan M. Horowitz , Juan MR Parrondo

We prove a general upper bound on the tradeoff between time and space that suffices for the reversible simulation of irreversible computation. Previously, only simulations using exponential time or quadratic space were known. The tradeoff…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Harry Buhrman , J. Tromp , Paul Vitanyi

Using a new Bayesian method for solving inverse quantum problems, potentials of quantum systems are reconstructed from coordinate measurements in non-stationary states. The approach is based on two basic inputs: 1. a likelihood model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Lemm

Time reversal invariance can be summarized as follows: no difference can be measured if a sequence of events is run forward or backward in time. Because price time series are dominated by a randomness that hides possible structures and…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Gilles Zumbach

An overview is given of recent advances in the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of quantum systems and, especially, of time-reversal symmetry relations that have been discovered in this context. The systems considered are driven out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Pierre Gaspard

We introduce here the concept of establishing Parity-time symmetry through a gauge transformation involving a shift of the mirror plane for the Parity operation. The corresponding unitary transformation on the system's constitutive matrix…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 James Gear , Yong Sun , Shiyi Xiao , Liwen Zhang , Richard Fitzgerald , Stefan Rotter , Hong Chen , Jensen Li

Time reversal mirrors work perfectly only for lossless wave propagation. Here, the performance of time-reversal mirrors is quantitatively defined, and the adverse effect of dissipation on their performance is investigated. An application of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-02 Biniyam Tesfaye Taddese , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

Time-reversal symmetry allows waves to retrace their paths through complex media and refocus at their origin. However, incomplete capture and reversal of scattered waves often limits pulse recompression. We address this challenge for…

Thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography require reconstructing initial acoustic pressure in a body from time series of pressure measured on a surface surrounding the body. For the classical case of free space wave propagation, various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 B. Holman , L. Kunyansky

Continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo refers to a class of algorithms designed to sample the thermal distribution of a quantum Hamiltonian through exact expansions of the Boltzmann exponential in terms of stochastic trajectories which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Jamie F. Mair , Juan P. Garrahan

Nearly all the evolution equations of physics are time-reversible, in the sense that a movie of the solution, played backwards, would obey exactly the same differential equations as the original forward solution. By way of contrast,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

We consider a model for a one-dimensional quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and repulsive interactions, proximity coupled to a conventional s-wave superconductor. Using a combination of Hartree-Fock and density matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 Arbel Haim , Anna Keselman , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

We give a consistent quantum description of time, based on Page and Wootters' conditional probabilities mechanism, that overcomes the criticisms that were raised against similar previous proposals. In particular we show how the model allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

This paper presents a novel approach for steering the state of a stochastic control-affine system to a desired target within a finite time horizon. Our method leverages the time-reversal of diffusion processes to construct the required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Ali Pakniyat

Recent works have proposed the use of the formalism of Positive Operator Valued Measures to describe time measurements in quantum mechanics. This work aims to expand on the work done by other authors, by generalizing the previously proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 V. Cavalheri Pereira , J. C. A. Barata

Access to the time-reverse $U^{-1}$ of an unknown quantum unitary process $U$ is widely assumed in quantum learning, metrology, and many-body physics. The fundamental task of unitary time-reversal dictates implementing $U^{-1}$ to within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Kean Chen , Nengkun Yu , Zhicheng Zhang

Time-reversal (TR) symmetry is crucial for understanding a wide range of physical phenomena, and plays a key role in constraining fundamental particle interactions and in classifying phases of quantum matter. In this work, we introduce an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Kabir Khanna , Abhishek Kumar , Romain Vasseur , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Even though the time-reversal is unphysical (it corresponds to the complex conjugation of the density matrix), for some restricted set of states it can be achieved unitarily, typically when there is a common de-phasing in a n-level system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Francesco Buscemi , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Chiara Macchiavello

The time reversal symmetry of the wave equation allows wave refocusing back at the source. However, this symmetry does not hold in lossy media. We present a new strategy to compensate wave amplitude losses due to attenuation. The strategy…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Crystal T. Wu , Nuno M. Nobre , Emmanuel Fort , Graham D. Riley , Fumie Costen

The classical evolution of the universe can be seen as a parametrised worldline of the minisuperspace, with the time variable $t$ the parameter that parametrises the worldline. The time reversal symmetry of the field equations implies that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-17 Salvador J. Robles-Perez