4 papers
Adversarial Thermodynamics
Maite Arcos, Philippe Faist, Takahiro Sagawa +1
In thermodynamics, an agent's ability to extract work is fundamentally constrained by their environment. Traditional frameworks struggle to capture how strategic decision-making un…
A resource theory of gambling
Maite Arcos, Renato Renner, Jonathan Oppenheim
Betting games provide a natural setting to capture how information yields strategic advantage. The Kelly criterion for betting, long a cornerstone of portfolio theory and informati…
A quantum oscillator interacting with a classical oscillator
Muhammad Sajjad, Andrea Russo, Maite Arcos +2
We study a quantum oscillator interacting and back-reacting on a classical oscillator. This can be done consistently provided the quantum system decoheres, while the backreaction h…
Encodings of Observable Subalgebras
Maite Arcos, Harriet Apel, Toby Cubitt
Simulating complex systems remains an ongoing challenge for classical computers, while being recognised as a task where a quantum computer has a natural advantage. In both digital…