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We investigate fundamental connections between thermodynamics and quantum information theory. First, we show that the operational framework of thermal operations is nonequivalent to the framework of Gibbs-preserving maps, and we comment on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Philippe Faist

Thermodynamics and information have intricate interrelations. Often thermodynamics is considered to be the logical premise to justify that information is physical - through Landauer's principle -, thereby also linking information and…

The first law of thermodynamics, which governs energy conservation, is traditionally formulated as an equality. Surprisingly, we demonstrate that the first law alone implies a universal Landauer-like inequality linking changes in system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Junjie Liu , Hanlin Nie

We study the problem of the energetic cost of information erasure by looking at it through the lens of the Jarzynski equality. We observe that the Landauer bound, $\langle W \rangle \geq kT \ln 2$, on average dissipated work $\langle W…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-27 Lorenzo Buffoni , Michele Campisi

One of the defining traits of quantum mechanics is the uncertainty principle which was originally expressed in terms of the standard deviation of two observables. Alternatively, it can be formulated using entropic measures, and can also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Göktuğ Karpat , Jyrki Piilo , Sabrina Maniscalco

Ergotropy provides a fundamental measure of the extractable work from a quantum system and, consequently, of the maximal useful energy, or charge, stored within it. Understanding how this quantity can be manipulated and transformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 André H. A. Malavazi , Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Horodecki , Pedro R. Dieguez

The minimum heat cost of computation is subject to bounds arising from Landauer's principle. Here, I derive bounds on finite modelling -- the production or anticipation of patterns (time-series data) -- by devices that model the pattern in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-21 Andrew J. P. Garner

Thermodynamics and information have intricate inter-relations. The justification of the fact that information is physical, is done by inter-linking information and thermodynamics - through Landauer's principle. This modern approach towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Manabendra Nath Bera , Andreas Winter , Maciej Lewenstein

Entanglement is central both to the foundations of quantum theory and, as a novel resource, to quantum information science. The theory of entanglement establishes basic laws, such as the non-increase of entanglement under local operations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Martin B. Plenio

Networks of quantum devices with coherent control over their configuration offer promising advantages in quantum information processing. So far, the investigation of these advantages assumed that the control system was initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Tamal Guha , Saptarshi Roy , Giulio Chiribella

Computer simulation of observable phenomena is an indispensable tool for engineering new technology, understanding the natural world, and studying human society. Yet the most interesting systems are often complex, such that simulating their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Matthew S. Palsson , Mile Gu , Joseph Ho , Howard M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

The Landauer principle bridges the energetic cost and information processing, showing that irreversible computation inevitably demands energy dissipation. As energy demands from computation continue to rise, approximate computing has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We apply evolutionary reinforcement learning to a simulation model in order to identify efficient time-dependent erasure protocols for a physical realization of a one-bit memory by an underdamped mechanical cantilever. We show that these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Nicolas Barros , Stephen Whitelam , Sergio Ciliberto , Ludovic Bellon

In 1961, Rolf Landauer pointed out that resetting a binary memory requires a minimum energy of $k_BT \ln(2)$. However, once written, any memory is doomed to loose its content if no action is taken. To avoid memory losses, a refresh…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-11 Davide Chiuchiù , Miquel López-Suárez , Igor Neri , Maria Cristina Diamantini , Luca Gammaitoni

Reducing the energy inefficiency of conventional CMOS-based computing devices -- which rely on logically irreversible gates to process information -- remains both a fundamental engineering challenge and a practical social challenge of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-02 Christian Z. Pratt , Kyle J. Ray , James P. Crutchfield

Many-body entangled states are key elements in quantum information science and quantum metrology. One important problem in establishing a high degree of many-body entanglement using optical techniques is the leakage of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Mingfeng Wang , Weizhi Qu , Pengxiong Li , Han Bao , Vladan Vuletić , Yanhong Xiao

Conventional computing has many sources of heat dissipation, but one of these--the Landauer limit--poses a fundamental lower bound of 1 bit of entropy per bit erased. 'Reversible Computing' avoids this source of dissipation, but is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Hannah Earley

The experimental confirmation of Landauer principle and the emerging concept of a computational universe make it more and more crucial to understand the physical sense of information, as it has an intrinsic relation with observer knowledge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Philippe Guillemant , Cherifa Abid , Marc Medale

The fading memory property is a key requirement for reservoir computers -- a specific type of recurrent neural network with fixed internal weights. While mostly undesired in gate-based quantum computing, dissipation due to material…

Quantum entanglement has become an essential resource in quantum information processing. Existing works employ entangled quantum states to perform various tasks, while little attention is paid to the control of the resource. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Qiang Zeng , Haoyang Wang , Huihong Yuan , Yuanbin Fan , Lai Zhou , Yuanfei Gao , Haiqiang Ma , Zhiliang Yuan