3 papers
quant-ph2026
Carnot Meets Quantum Information: Thermal Machine Driven by Probabilistic Non-orthogonal State Discrimination
Tan-Ji Zhou, Yun-Qian Lin, Yu-Han Ma +1
While the impossibility of perfectly identifying non-orthogonal states is a cornerstone of quantum information science, their probabilistic discrimination is nonetheless permissibl…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Reliability-Safety Trade-off in AI Distillation: A Renormalization-Group Approach
Y. M. Du, Miao-Miao Yi, Tan-Ji Zhou +1
Knowledge distillation transfers more than task competence: it also transmits response propensities, refusal policies, error boundaries, and latent safety biases. We formulate this…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Adverse Selection with Quality Variance: A Maximum-Entropy Approach
Zhi-Lei Zhang, Tan-Ji Zhou, C. P. Sun
The adverse-selection mechanism in markets explains how asymmetric information between buyers and sellers can drive high-quality goods out of the market, thereby causing market det…