Order, not speed: the work price of letting go
In plain wordsThe order in which a device must let outputs go has its own work price, which no patience removes: letting an output go is priced by the correlations its record keeps with it, and for memoryless channels prompt release costs extra only if the channel is quantum.
The result
As the paper states it, in briefA short letter summarizing the four papers: a device that must let an output go before a later input arrives pays for every correlation its record keeps with that output, however slowly it runs.
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Versionstwo, each with its own DOI
| Version | Date | DOI | Notes |
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| 1.1.0 | 10.5281/zenodo.23325747 | PDF hosted here. | |
| 1.0.0 | 10.5281/zenodo.23323809 |
Paper, code and links
papers/order-not-speed-v1.1.0.pdf, version 1.1.0, 407,965 bytes.SHA-256 4498219ecbb1867288adc0aa8eb19e71c4256627e6b168d9b3880f854c07fbc1
- DOI
10.5281/zenodo.23325747; all versions 10.5281/zenodo.23323808
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Cite
@misc{douglas2026ordernotspeed,
author = {Douglas, Seth and Mghirbi, Nidhal},
title = {Order, not speed: the work price of letting go},
year = {2026},
version = {1.1.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23325747},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23325747}
}