activity
20152024
most citedAbove and Beyond the Landauer Bound: Thermodynamics of Modularity

67 citations · 373 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

18 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Thermodynamic Overfitting and Generalization: Energetic Limits on Predictive Complexity

Alexander B. Boyd, James P. Crutchfield, Mile Gu +1

Efficiently harvesting thermodynamic resources requires a precise understanding of their structure. This becomes explicit through the lens of information engines -- thermodynamic e…

quant-ph2023

Efficient Quantum Work Reservoirs at the Nanoscale

Jinghao Lyu, Alexander B. Boyd, James P. Crutchfield

When reformulated as a resource theory, thermodynamics can analyze system behaviors in the single-shot regime. In this, the work required to implement state transitions is bounded…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

The Thermodynamic Uncertainty Theorem

Kyle J. Ray, Alexander B. Boyd, Giacomo Guarnieri +1

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) express a fundamental tradeoff between the precision (inverse scaled variance) of any thermodynamic current by functionals of the average…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Trajectory Class Fluctuation Theorem

Gregory Wimsatt, Alexander B. Boyd, James P. Crutchfield

The Trajectory Class Fluctuation Theorem (TCFT) substantially strengthens the Second Law of Thermodynamics -- that, in point of fact, can be a rather weak bound on resource fluxes.…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021

Time Symmetries of Memory Determine Thermodynamic Efficiency

Alexander B. Boyd, Paul M. Riechers, Gregory W. Wimsatt +2

While Landauer's Principle sets a lower bound for the work required for a computation, that work is recoverable for efficient computations. However, practical physical computers, s…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 14 cited

Refining Landauer's Stack: Balancing Error and Dissipation When Erasing Information

Gregory W. Wimsatt, Alexander B. Boyd, Paul M. Riechers +1

Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control protocols. We demonstrate that its bounds…