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Geometric frustration is known to completely damage kinetic processes of some of the orbitals (and their associated quantum coherence) as to produce flat bands in the non-interacting systems. The impact of introducing additional interaction…

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For many real physico-chemical complex systems detailed mechanism includes both reversible and irreversible reactions. Such systems are typical in homogeneous combustion and heterogeneous catalytic oxidation. Most complex enzyme reactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-17 A. N. Gorban , E. M. Mirkes , G. S. Yablonsky

From a dynamical viewpoint, basic phase transitions of statistical mechanics can be regarded as a breaking of ergodicity. While many random models exhibiting such transitions at the thermodynamics limit exist, finite-dimensional examples…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Bastien Fernandez

Symmetries of both closed and open-system dynamics imply many significant constraints. These generally have instantiations in both classical and quantum dynamics (Noether's theorem, for instance, applies to both sorts of dynamics). We here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

We use an alternative approach to show that quantum entanglement-like correlations cannot be reproduced for any classical protocol. In our proposal, quantum geometric restrictions are impose over the physical system related to the existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 R. Restrepo-Villegas , E. Agudelo , J. Castrillón , B. A. Rodríguez

Geometric rounding of a mesh is the task of approximating its vertex coordinates by floating point numbers while preserving mesh structure. Geometric rounding allows algorithms of computational geometry to interface with numerical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Victor Milenkovic , Elisha Sacks

A generalized entropy arising in the context of superstatistics is obtained for an ideal gas. The curvature scalar associated to the thermodynamic space generated by this modified entropy is calculated using two formalisms of the geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-18 J. L. López , O. Obregón , J. Torres-Arenas

Information processing at the molecular scale is limited by thermal fluctuations. This can cause undesired consequences in copying information since thermal noise can lead to errors that can compromise the functionality of the copy. For…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-16 Pablo Sartori , Simone Pigolotti

We consider the problem of how to construct a physical process over a finite state space $X$ that applies some desired conditional distribution $P$ to initial states to produce final states. This problem arises often in the thermodynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-15 Jeremy A. Owen , Artemy Kolchinsky , David H. Wolpert

Describing matter at near absolute zero temperature requires understanding a system's quantum ground state and the low energy excitations around it, the quasiparticles, which are thermally populated by the system's contact to a heat bath.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Claudio Chamon

Quantum resources such as entanglement, information redundancy, and coherence enable revolutionary advantages but obey fundamental tradeoffs. We present a unified geometric constraint governing three core operational tasks: teleportation…

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Magic states are essential for achieving universal quantum computation. This study introduces a reversible framework for the manipulation of magic states in odd dimensions, delineating a necessary and sufficient condition for the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Yu-Ao Chen , Gilad Gour , Xin Wang , Lei Zhang , Chenghong Zhu

Thermalization is the process through which a physical system evolves toward a state of thermal equilibrium. Determining whether or not a physical system will thermalize from an initial state has been a key question in condensed matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Dhruv Devulapalli , T. C. Mooney , James D. Watson

All computation is physically embedded. Reflecting this, a growing body of results embraces rate equations as the underlying mechanics of thermodynamic computation and biological information processing. Strictly applying the implied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-09 Kyle J. Ray , Gregory W. Wimsatt , Alexander B. Boyd , James P. Crutchfield

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

Quantum correlations in a composite system can be measured by resorting to a geometric approach, according to which the distance from the state of the system to a suitable set of classically correlated states is considered. Here we show…

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Recently implemented quantum devices such as quantum processors and quantum simulators combine highly complicated quantum dynamics with high-resolution measurements. We present a passivity deformation methodology that sets thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Raam Uzdin , Saar Rahav

We introduce the topological complexity of the work map associated to a robot system. In broad terms, this measures the complexity of any algorithm controlling, not just the motion of the configuration space of the given system, but the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Aniceto Murillo , Jie Wu

Master equation with microscopic reversibility ($q_{ij}\neq 0$ iff $q_{ji}\neq 0$) has a {\em thermodynamic superstructure} in terms of two state functions $S$, entropy, and $F$, free energy: It is discovered recently that entropy…

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