Towards Quantum Cybernetics
Quantum Physics
2015-11-24 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Physics and Society
Abstract
Classical cybernetics is a successful meta-theory to model the regulation of complex systems from an abstract information-theoretic viewpoint, regardless of the properties of the system under scrutiny. Fundamental limits to the controllability of an open system can be formalized in terms of the law of requisite variety, which is derived from the second law of thermodynamics. These concepts are briefly reviewed, and the chances, challenges and potential gains arising from the generalisation of such a framework to the quantum domain are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1502.06837,
title = {Towards Quantum Cybernetics},
author = {Davide Girolami and Rebecca Schmidt and Gerardo Adesso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06837},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Perspective article, close to published version