English
Related papers

Related papers: Phase transitions in time complexity of Brownian c…

200 papers

We analyze a token-based Brownian circuit in which Brownian particles, coined `tokens,' move randomly by exploiting thermal fluctuations, searching for a path in multi-token state space corresponding to the solution of a given problem. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-24 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Yasuchika Ito , Dimitry Golubev , Ferdinand Peper

We study the emergence of anticoncentration and approximate unitary design behavior in local Brownian circuits. The dynamics of circuit averaged moments of the probability distribution and entropies of the output state can be represented as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Subhayan Sahu , Shao-Kai Jian

A graph-theoretic analysis of the steady-state current noise in master equations under a finite thermodynamic force (affinity) is presented. The incidence matrix twisted by a finite affinity is not orthogonal to the standard cycle space,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yasuhiro Utsumi

Collisional Brownian engines have attracted significant attention due to their simplicity, experimental accessibility, and amenability to exact analytical solutions. While previous research has predominantly focused on optimizing mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-11 Gustavo A. L. Forão , Fernando S. Filho , Pedro V. Paraguassú

Fluctuations are significant in mesoscopic systems and of particular importance in understanding quantum transport. Here, we show that fluctuations can be considered as a resource for the operations of open quantum systems as functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jincheng Lu , Rongqian Wang , Chen Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

The energy cost of computation has emerged as a central challenge at the intersection of physics and computer science. Recent advances in statistical physics -- particularly in stochastic thermodynamics -- enable precise characterizations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jinghao Lyu , Kyle J. Ray , James P. Crutchfield

Brownian clocks are biomolecular networks that can count time. A paradigmatic example are proteins that go through a cycle thus regulating some oscillatory behaviour in a living system. Typically, such a cycle requires free energy often…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-20 Andre C Barato , Udo Seifert

Brownian computers utilize thermal fluctuations as a resource for computation and hold promise for achieving ultra-low-energy computations. However, the lack of a statistical direction in Brownian motion necessitates the incorporation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sho Nakade , Ferdinand Peper , Kazuki Kanki , Tomio Petrosky

We introduce a prime number generator in the form of a stochastic algorithm. The character of such algorithm gives rise to a continuous phase transition which distinguishes a phase where the algorithm is able to reduce the whole system of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Lucas Lacasa , Bartolo Luque , Octavio Miramontes

This paper is concerned with the stochastic thermodynamics of non-equilibrium Gaussian processes that can exhibit anomalous diffusion. In the systems considered, the noise correlation function is not necessarily related to friction. Thus,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-20 S. Mohsen J. Khadem , Rainer Klages , Sabine H. L. Klapp

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

We consider a model of active Brownian particles with velocity-alignment in two spatial dimensions with passive and active fluctuations. Hereby, active fluctuations refers to purely non-equilibrium stochastic forces correlated with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Grossmann , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Pawel Romanczuk

We obtain the fluctuations for the occupation time of one-dimensional symmetric exclusion processes with speed change, where the transition rates (conductances) are driven by a general function W. The approach does not require sharp bounds…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Tertuliano Franco , Patrícia Gonçalves , Adriana Neumann

In the last ten years, a number of ``Conventional Fluctuation Theorems'' have been derived for systems with deterministic or stochastic dynamics, in a transient or in a non-equilibrium stationary state. These theorems gave explicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

Developing a thermodynamic theory of computation is a challenging task at the interface of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and computer science. In particular, this task requires dealing with difficulties such as stochastic halting times,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-14 Gonzalo Manzano , Gülce Kardeş , Édgar Roldán , David Wolpert

In striking contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly alter the structure of active systems. Here, we demonstrate that driven systems can exhibit effective equilibrium-like states with increasing particle inertia, despite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-23 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler , John F. Brady

We present a study of the phase diagram of a random optimization problem in presence of quantum fluctuations. Our main result is the characterization of the nature of the phase transition, which we find to be a first-order quantum phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-24 T. Jorg , F. Krzakala , G. Semerjian , F. Zamponi

In contrast to the classical concept of a Carnot engine that alternates contact between heat baths of different temperatures, naturally occurring processes usually harvest energy from anisotropy, being exposed simultaneously to chemical and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Stochastic processes play a fundamental role in physics, mathematics, engineering and finance. One potential application of quantum computation is to better approximate properties of stochastic processes. For example, quantum algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Adam Bouland , Aditi Dandapani , Anupam Prakash

This article analyzes the behavior of a Brownian fluctuation process under a mixed strategic game setup. A variant of a compound Brownian motion has been newly proposed, which is called the Shifted Brownian Fluctuation Process to predict…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Song-Kyoo Kim
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›