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We investigate the problem of simulating classical stochastic processes through quantum dynamics, and present three scenarios where memory or time quantum advantages arise. First, by introducing and analysing a quantum version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Kamil Korzekwa , Matteo Lostaglio

We introduce and analyze an open quantum generalization of the q-state Potts-Hopfield neural network, which is an associative memory model based on multi-level classical spins. The dynamics of this many-body system is formulated in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Eliana Fiorelli , Igor Lesanovsky , Markus Müller

Low frequency dielectric measurements on plexiglass (PMMA) show that cooling and heating the sample at constant rate give an hysteretic dependence on temperature of the dielectric constant $\epsilon$. A temporary stop of cooling produces a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Bellon , S. Ciliberto , C. Laroche

We study a dephasing channel with memory, modelled by a multimode environment of oscillators. Focusing on the case of two channel uses, we show that memory effects can enhance the amount of coherent quantum information transmitted down the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-18 A. D'Arrigo , G. Benenti , G. Falci

Practical implementations of quantum technologies require preparation of states with a high degree of purity---or, in thermodynamic terms, very low temperatures. Given finite resources, the Third Law of thermodynamics prohibits perfect…

Dynamics of a system in general depends on its initial state and how the system is driven, but in many-body systems the memory is usually averaged out during evolution. Here, interacting quantum systems without external relaxations are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-27 Chen-Yen Lai , Chih-Chun Chien

Classical stochastic processes can be generated by quantum simulators instead of the more standard classical ones, such as hidden Markov models. One reason for using quantum simulators is that they generally require less memory than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-19 C. Aghamohammadi , J. R. Mahoney , J. P. Crutchfield

In this perspective paper, we look into memory effects in out-of-equilibrium systems. To be concrete, we exemplify memory effects with the paradigmatic case of granular fluids, although extensions to other contexts such as molecular fluids…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-12 A Patrón , B. Sánchez-Rey , C. A. Plata , A. Prados

We study the classical mechanics and dynamics of particles that retains some memory of quantum statistics. Our work builds on earlier work on the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of such particles. Starting from the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Varsha Subramanyan , T. H. Hansson , Smitha Vishveshwara

An important challenge for quantum theories of cognition and decision concerns the incorporation of memory for recently made judgments and their effects on later judgments. First, we review a general approach to measurement based on system…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-15 Jerome R. Busemeyer , Masanao Ozawa , Emmanuel M. Pothos , Naotsugu Tsuchiya

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

In this note we revisit the Kovacs effect, concerning the way in which the volume of a glass-forming liquid, which has been driven out of equilibrium, changes with time while the system evolves towards a metastable state. The theoret- ical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-16 F. Aliotta , R. C. Ponterio , F. Saija , P. V. Giaquinta

The Kovacs or crossover effect is one of the peculiar behaviours exhibited by glasses and other complex, slowly relaxing systems. Roughly it consists in the non-monotonic relaxation to its equilibrium value of a macroscopic property of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-20 A. Prados , J. J. Brey

The Mpemba and Kovacs effects are two notable memory phenomena observed in nonequilibrium relaxation processes. In a recent study [Phys.~Rev.~E \textbf{109}, 044149 (2024)], these effects were analyzed within the framework of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Andrés Santos

We consider the transfer of classical and quantum information through a memory amplitude damping channel. Such a quantum channel is modeled as a damped harmonic oscillator, the interaction between the information carriers - a train of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 A. D'Arrigo , G. Benenti , G. Falci

Despite extensive research, the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying the Mpemba effect, a phenomenon where a substance cools faster after initially being heated, remain elusive. Although historically linked with water, the Mpemba…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-26 Andrés Santos

Quantum memory effects can be induced even when the degrees of freedom associated to the environment are not affected at all during the system evolution. In this paper, based on a bipartite representation of the system-environment dynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Adrián A. Budini

Stimulated by recent experimental results, we simulate ``temperature''-cycling experiments in a model for the compaction of granular media. We report on the existence of two types of memory effects: short-term dependence on the history of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Barrat , V. Loreto

The dynamic behaviour of glassy materials displays strong nonequilibrium effects, such as ageing in simple protocols, memory, rejuvenation and Kovacs effects in more elaborated experiments. We show that this phenomenology may be easily…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ludovic Berthier , Peter C. W. Holdsworth

Quantum coherence allows for reduced-memory simulators of classical processes. Using recent results in single-shot quantum thermodynamics, we derive a minimal work cost rate for quantum simulators that is quasistatically attainable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Samuel P. Loomis , James P. Crutchfield