Quantifying memory capacity as a quantum thermodynamic resource

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Narasimhachar, Varun, Thompson, Jayne, Ma, Jiajun, Gour, Gilad, Gu, Mile
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: Quantum Optics; Memory Capacity; DRNTU::Science::Physics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85422; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48311

The information-carrying capacity of a memory is known to be a thermodynamic resource facilitating the conversion of heat to work. Szilard's engine explicates this connection through a toy example involving an energy-degenerate two-state memory. We devise a formalism to quantify the thermodynam...