東京大学 · Physics and Astronomy
헤세가와 요시히코 교수의 연구실은 비평형 열역학과 양자 열역학 시스템에서의 변동성과 정밀도의 한계를 규명하는 데 초점을 맞추고 있습니다. 특히 열역학적 불확실성 관계, 플럭추에이션 정리, 양자 측정 이론을 기반으로 한 보편적 상한선을 도출하며, 고전적 마코프 과정에서부터 양자 열역학 시스템까지 적용 가능한 일반성 있는 이론적 프레임워크를 개발하고 있습니다. 연구는 열역학적 양자 시스템의 동역학, 측정의 정밀도 한계, 그리고 양자 시스템의 정보 이론적 기반을 융합적으로 다룹니다.
표시된 성과는 수집된 데이터 기준으로 산출되며, 일부 차이가 있을 수 있습니다.
The fluctuation theorem is the fundamental equality in nonequilibrium thermodynamics that is used to derive many important thermodynamic relations, such as the second law of thermodynamics and the Jarzynski equality. Recently, the thermodynamic uncertainty relation was discovered, which states that the fluctuation of observables is lower bounded by the entropy production. In the present Letter, we derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation from the fluctuation theorem. We refer to the obtained
The thermodynamic uncertainty relation is an inequality stating that it is impossible to attain higher precision than the bound defined by entropy production. In statistical inference theory, information inequalities assert that it is infeasible for any estimator to achieve an error smaller than the prescribed bound. Inspired by the similarity between the thermodynamic uncertainty relation and the information inequalities, we apply the latter to systems described by Langevin equations, and we de
We use quantum estimation theory to derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation in Markovian open quantum systems, which bounds the fluctuation of continuous measurements. The derived quantum thermodynamic uncertainty relation holds for arbitrary continuous measurements satisfying a scaling condition. We derive two relations; the first relation bounds the fluctuation by the dynamical activity and the second one does so by the entropy production. We apply our bounds to a two-level atom driven by
We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation for general open quantum dynamics, described by a joint unitary evolution on a composite system comprising a system and an environment. By measuring the environmental state after the system-environment interaction, we bound the counting observables in the environment by the survival activity, which reduces to the dynamical activity in classical Markov processes. Remarkably, the relation derived herein holds for general open quantum systems with any
The bulk-boundary correspondence provides a guiding principle for tackling strongly correlated and coupled systems. In the present work, we apply the concept of the bulk-boundary correspondence to thermodynamic bounds described by classical and quantum Markov processes. Using the continuous matrix product state, we convert a Markov process to a quantum field, such that jump events in the Markov process are represented by the creation of particles in the quantum field. Introducing the time evolut
Genetic programming (GP) is a powerful optimization algorithm that has been applied to a variety of problems. This algorithm can, however, suffer from problems arising from the fact that a crossover, which is a main genetic operator in GP, randomly selects crossover points, and so building blocks may be destroyed by the action of this operator. In recent years, evolutionary algorithms based on probabilistic techniques have been proposed in order to overcome this problem. In the present study, we
Estimation of distribution algorithms are evolutionary algorithms using probabilistic techniques instead of traditional genetic operators. Recently, the application of probabilistic techniques to program and function evolution has received increasing attention, and this approach promises to provide a strong alternative to the traditional genetic programming techniques. Although a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) is a widely used model for probabilistic program evolution, a conventional
Circadian rhythms are acquired through evolution to increase the chances for survival through synchronizing with the daylight cycle. Reliable synchronization is realized through two trade-off properties: regularity to keep time precisely, and entrainability to synchronize the internal time with daylight. We find by using a phase model with multiple inputs that achieving the maximal limit of regularity and entrainability entails many inherent features of the circadian mechanism. At the molecular
We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation for first passage processes in quantum Markov chains. We consider first passage processes that stop after a fixed number of jump events, which contrasts with typical quantum Markov chains which end at a fixed time. We obtain bounds for the observables of the first passage processes in quantum Markov chains by the Loschmidt echo, which quantifies the extent of irreversibility in quantum many-body systems. Considering a particular case, we show that t
Genetic Programming (GP) which mimics the natural evolution to optimize functions and programs, has been applied to many problems. In recent years, evolutionary algorithms are seen from the viewpoint of the estimation of distribution. Many algorithms called EDAs (Estimation of Distribution Algorithms) based on probabilistic techniques have been proposed. Although probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG) is often used for the function and program evolution, it assumes the independence among the
Trade-off relations place fundamental limits on the operations that physical systems can perform. This Letter presents a trade-off relation that bounds the correlation function, which measures the relationship between a system's current and future states, in Markov processes. The obtained bound, referred to as the thermodynamic correlation inequality, states that the change in the correlation function has an upper bound comprising the dynamical activity, a thermodynamic measure of the activity o
The circadian oscillator exhibits remarkably high temporal precision, despite its exposure to several fluctuations. The central mechanism that protects the oscillator from fluctuations is a collective enhancement of precision where a population of coupled oscillators displays higher temporal precision than that achieved without coupling. Since coupling is essentially information exchange between oscillators, we herein investigate the relation between the temporal precision and the information fl