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According to the universal entropy bound, the entropy (and hence information capacity) of a complete weakly self-gravitating physical system can be bounded exclusively in terms of its circumscribing radius and total gravitating energy. The…

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The importance of Fisher information is increasing in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, as it has played a fundamental role in trade-off relations such as thermodynamic uncertainty relations and speed limits. In this work, we investigate…

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Accurate information processing is crucial both in technology and in nature. To achieve it, any information processing system needs an initial supply of resources away from thermal equilibrium. Here we establish a fundamental limit on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Giulio Chiribella , Fei Meng , Renato Renner , Man-Hong Yung

Living systems operate far from thermal equilibrium by converting the chemical potential of ATP into mechanical work to achieve growth, replication or locomotion. Given time series observations of intra-, inter- or multicellular processes,…

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Simulations are performed of a small quantum system interacting with a quantum environment. The system consists of various initial states of two harmonic oscillators coupled to give normal modes. The environment is "designed" by its level…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 George L. Barnes , Michael E. Kellman

A microscopic understanding of the thermodynamic entropy in quantum systems has been a mystery ever since the invention of quantum mechanics. In classical physics, this entropy is believed to be the logarithm of the volume of phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 J. M. Deutsch , Haibin Li , Auditya Sharma

Information is physical but information is also processed in finite time. Where computing protocols are concerned, finite-time processing in the quantum regime can dynamically generate coherence. Here we show that this can have significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Harry J. D. Miller , Giacomo Guarnieri , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

Landauer's principle provides a perspective on the physical meaning of information as well as on the minimum working cost of information processing. Whereas most studies have related the decrease in entropy during a computationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Kazunari Hashimoto , Bassano Vacchini , Chikako Uchiyama

We investigate bounds on speed, non-adiabatic entropy production and trade-off relation between them for classical stochastic processes with time-independent transition rates. Our results show that the time required to evolve from an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-10 Jie Gu

One version of the energy-time uncertainty principle states that the minimum time $T_{\perp}$ for a quantum system to evolve from a given state to any orthogonal state is $h/(4 \Delta E)$ where $\Delta E$ is the energy uncertainty. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Stephen P. Jordan

Quantum oscillators prepared out of thermal equilibrium can be used to produce work and transmit information. By intensive cooling of a single oscillator, its thermal energy deterministically dissipates to a colder environment, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 J. Hloušek , M. Ježek , R. Filip

We show that the rate of increase of von Neumann entropy computed from the reduced density matrix of an open quantum system is an excellent indicator of the dynamical behavior of its classical hamiltonian counterpart. In decohering quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. H. Zurek , J. P. Paz

We review with a tutorial scope the information theory foundations of quantum statistical physics. Only a small proportion of the variables that characterize a system at the microscopic scale can be controlled, for both practical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Balian

We derive a universal inequality that provides a lower bound on the ensemble-averaged von Neumann entropy change in a quantum system subject to continuous measurement and dissipation. Our result clarifies how entropy production is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Kohei Kobayashi

The entropy of a classical thermally isolated Hamiltonian system is given by the logarithm of the measure of phase space enclosed by the constant energy hyper-surface, also known as volume entropy. It has been shown that on average the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-12 Michele Campisi

During a spontaneous change, a macroscopic physical system will evolve towards a macro-state with more realizations. This observation is at the basis of the Statistical Mechanical version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and it provides…

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The deep connection between entropy and information is discussed in terms of both classical and quantum physics. The mechanism of information transfer between systems via entanglement is explored in the context of decoherence theory. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Martin Paul Vaughan

Quantitative analysis of discontinuity of basic characteristics of quantum states and channels is presented. First we consider general estimates for discontinuity jump (loss) of the von Neumann entropy for a given converging sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 M. E. Shirokov

Energy-time uncertainty plays an important role in quantum foundations and technologies, and it was even discussed by the founders of quantum mechanics. However, standard approaches (e.g., Robertson's uncertainty relation) do not apply to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Patrick J. Coles , Vishal Katariya , Seth Lloyd , Iman Marvian , Mark M. Wilde