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Quantum-foundational implications of information erasure upon measurement
Alberto Montina, Stefan Wolf
A projective measurement cannot decrease the von Neumann entropy if the outcome is ignored. However, under certain sound assumptions and using the quantum violation of Leggett-Garg…
Unconditional Proofs-of-Work and Other Possibilities of Thermodynamic Cryptography
Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Stefan Wolf
In line with advances in recent years about realizing cryptographic functionalities in an information-theoretically secure way from physical phenomena and laws, we propose here to…
An Algebraic-Geometry Approach to Prime Factorization
Alberto Montina, Stefan Wolf
New algorithms for prime factorization that outperform the existing ones or take advantage of particular properties of the prime factors can have a practical impact on present impl…
Key Agreement and Oblivious Transfer from Free-Energy Limitations
Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Stefan Wolf
We propose one of the very few constructive consequences of the second law of thermodynamics. More specifically, we present protocols for secret-key establishment and multiparty co…
Generalized Gleason theorem and finite amount of information for the context
A. Montina, S. Wolf
Quantum processes cannot be reduced, in a nontrivial way, to classical processes without specifying the context in the description of a measurement procedure. This requirement is i…
Thermodynamics as Combinatorics: A Toy Theory
Ämin Baumeler, Carla Rieger, Stefan Wolf
We discuss a simple toy model which allows, in a natural way, for deriving central facts from thermodynamics such as its fundamental laws, including Carnot's version of the second…