Every undergraduate student has learned that the maximal efficiency any heat engine can achieve is given by the Carnot efficiency, which describes the Carnot cycle and which is independent of the work...

Among the processes governed by open-system and dissipative quantum dynamics, environment-induced superselection, or einselection, is particularly foundational, since it describes the formation of a p...

Given a particular heat engine cycle, what is the optimal working medium that results in the highest efficiency? While one might jump to the conclusion that it must surely be the ideal gas, the situat...

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From compatibility of measurements to exploring quantum Darwinism on NISQ, Doucet, Emery, Deffner, Sebastian

What is the most expensive part of quantum device characterization? Clearly, the answer is quantum process tomography. However, especially for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers, a comp...

Thermodynamic significance of QUBO encoding on quantum annealers, Doucet, Emery, Mzaouali, Zakaria, Robertson, Reece, Gardas, Bartłomiej, Deffner, Sebastian, Domino, Krzysztof

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While it has been widely recognized that genuine quantum advantage for practical problems might only be achieved with fault-tolerant quantum computers, it is still not entirely clear whether the requi...

This article presents a brief account of Amir O. Caldeira's contributions to the theory of quantum Brownian motion. Motivated by its importance, we outline the description of Brownian motion in the qu...

Any protocol to process quantum information has to conclude with a measurement, aimed at producing a specific set of probabilities of measurement outcomes. In this work, we investigate the time, energ...

Quantum asymmetry and coherence are genuinely quantum resources that are essential to realize quantum advantage in information technologies. However, all quantum processes are fundamentally constraine...

What are the resources that can be leveraged for a thermodynamic device to exhibit genuine quantum advantage? Typically, the answer to this question is sought in quantum correlations. In the present w...

APS Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and <em>Physical Review E</em> review over 30 years of research in the division’s areas.

The DSNP Dissertation Award Selection Committee presents the 2025 Award sponsored by Physical Review E.

APS Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and <em>Physical Review E</em> review over 30 years of research in the division’s areas.

We implement a variational quantum algorithm for Gibbs state preparation of a transverse-field Ising model on IonQ's quantum computers. To this end, we train the variational parameters via classical s...

We implement a variational quantum algorithm for Gibbs state preparation of a transverse-field Ising model on IonQ's quantum computers. To this end, we train the variational parameters via classical s...

Thanks to advanced technology, we can now see droughts and crop failures months before they hit. So why are millions of people still going hungry? TED Fellow Catherine Nakalembe, director of the NASA ...

We implement an open-source quantum computing emulator that includes arithmetic operations, the quantum Fourier transform, and quantum phase estimation. The emulator provides significant savings in bo...

A quantum speed limit for the decay of out-of-time-ordered correlators is established by interpreting information scrambling in a closed quantum system as effective decoherence, relating the scramblin...

Quantum Darwinism explains how tenets of classical reality, such as objectivity and repeatability, emerge within a quantum universe. As a mathematical framework, Quantum Darwinism also provides guidin...

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) is the standard interface to quantum annealers, yet a single constrained task admits many QUBO encodings whose penalty choices reshape the energy lan...

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Classical fluctuation theorems for work have been obtained theoretically, and verified experimentally, within a nonautonomous framework in which wo...

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In introductory biology, aging is typically explained as a result of mutations during the DNA replication process within cells. Upon abstraction, we recognize that cellular aging can be understood as ...

Federal authorities are denying more work visas and green cards, vetting social media posts and applying enhanced scrutiny to foreign employees’ credentials.

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

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