Number of hidden states needed to physically implement a given conditional distribution

We consider the problem of how to construct a physical process over a finite state space X that applies some desired conditional distribution P to initial states to produce final states. This problem arises often in the thermodynamics of computation and nonequilibrium statistical physics more genera...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jeremy A Owen, Artemy Kolchinsky, David H Wolpert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aaf81d