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Parrondo's paradox arises in sequences of games in which a winning expectation may be obtained by playing the games in a random order, even though each game in the sequence may be lost when played individually. We present a suitable version…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-19 Antonio Di Crescenzo

The Parrondo's paradox is a counterintuitive phenomenon where individually-losing strategies can be combined in producing a winning expectation. In this paper, the issues surrounding the Parrondo's paradox are investigated. The focus is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Jian-Jun Shu , Qi-Wen Wang

We consider a deterministic realization of Parrondo games and use periodic orbit theory to analyze their asymptotic behavior.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Artuso , Lucia Cavallasca , Giampaolo Cristadoro

A quantum logic gate of particular interest to both electrical engineers and game theorists is the quantum multiplexer. This shared interest is due to the facts that an arbitrary quantum logic gate may be expressed, up to arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-04 Faisal Shah Khan

This paper investigates the different effects of chaotic switching on Parrondo's games, as compared to random and periodic switching. The rate of winning of Parrondo's games with chaotic switching depends on coefficient(s) defining the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-10 T. W. Tang , A. Allison , D. Abbott

The Parrondo effect describes the seemingly paradoxical situation in which two losing games can, when combined, become winning [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 24 (2000)]. Here we generalize this analysis to the case where both games are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Roland J. Kay , Neil F. Johnson

Parrondo's coin-tossing games comprise two games, $A$ and $B$. The result of game $A$ is determined by the toss of a fair coin. The result of game $B$ is determined by the toss of a $p_0$-coin if capital is a multiple of $r$, and by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-03 S. N. Ethier , Jiyeon Lee

The flashing Brownian ratchet is a stochastic process that alternates between two regimes, a one-dimensional Brownian motion and a Brownian ratchet, the latter being a one-dimensional diffusion process that drifts towards a minimum of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-07 S. N. Ethier , Jiyeon Lee

Based on Brownian ratchets, a counter-intuitive phenomenon has recently emerged -- namely, that two losing games can yield, when combined, a paradoxical tendency to win. A restriction of this phenomenon is that the rules depend on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Juan M. R. Parrondo , Gregory P. Harmer , Derek Abbott

Aim of this note is to analyse branching Brownian motion within the class of models introduced in the recent paper [4] and called chemical diffusion master equations. These models provide a description for the probabilistic evolution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Alberto Lanconelli , Berk Tan Perçin

In a series of papers, G. Harmer and D. Abbott study the behavior of random walks associated with games introduced in 1997 by J. M. R. Parrondo. These games illustrate an apparent paradox that random and deterministic mixtures of losing…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. Pyke

Parrondo paradox describes the counterintuitive phenomenon in which alternating two individually losing games yields a winning outcome. Extending this effect to the quantum regime has typically required high dimensional coin spaces,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jen-Yu Chang , Yun-Hsuan Chen , Gooi Zi Liang , Chih-Yu Chen , Tsung-Wei Huang

We consider a primary model of ac-driven Brownian motors, i.e., a classical particle placed in a spatial-time periodic potential and coupled to a heat bath. The effects of fluctuations and dissipations are studied by a time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-01 S. Denisov , P. Hanggi , J. L. Mateos

Cooperative Parrondo's games on a regular two dimensional lattice are analyzed based on the computer simulations and on the discrete-time Markov chain model with exact transition probabilities. The paradox appears in the vicinity of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zoran Mihailovic , Milan Rajkovic

This paper is concerned with a new type of differential game problems of forwardbackward stochastic systems. There are three distinguishing features: Firstly, our game systems are forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Eddie C. M. Hui , Hua Xiao

The Parrondo game, devised by Parrondo, means that winning strategy is constructed a combination of losing strategy. This situation is called the Parrondo paradox. The Parrondo game based on quantum walk and the search algorithm via quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Taisuke Hosaka , Norio Konno

Parrondo's paradox is a well-known counterintuitive phenomenon, where the combination of unfavorable situations can establish favorable ones. In this paper, we study one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks, manipulating two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Munsif Jan , Niaz Ali Khan , Gao Xianlong

We construct a Parrondo's game using discrete time quantum walks. Two lossing games are represented by two different coin operators. By mixing the two coin operators $U_{A}(\alpha_{A},\beta_{A},\gamma_{A})$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Min Li , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Guang-Can Guo

We study an ensemble of individuals playing the two games of the so-called Parrondo paradox. In our study, players are allowed to choose the game to be played by the whole ensemble in each turn. The choice cannot conform to the preferences…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-10 J. M. R. Parrondo , L. Dinis , E. García-Toraño , B. Sotillo

An analytical result and an algorithm are derived for the probability distribution of the one-dimensional cooperative Parrondo's games. We show that winning and the occurrence of the paradox depends on the number of players. Analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zoran Mihailovic , Milan Rajkovic