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Recent theoretical results renewed the interest in charged particle multiplicity distributions. The Shannon entropy of such distributions is conjectured to be related to the entanglement or von Neumann entropy of partonic quantum system. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Sándor Lökös

The maximum entropy production (MEP) principle is a hypothetical law of physics which dictates that complex systems, far from equilibrium, evolve into an ordered dissipative structure (DS) which generates as much entropy per second as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-28 Albert Han , Jiri Kataman-Kustwan , Alexey Bezryadin

The macro-to-micro transition in a heterogeneous material is envisaged as the selection of a probability distribution by the Principle of Maximum Entropy (MAXENT). The material is made of constituents, e.g. given crystal orientations. Each…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mayeul Arminjon , Didier Imbault

Although compartmental dynamical systems are used in many different areas of science, model selection based on the maximum entropy principle (MaxEnt) is challenging because of the lack of methods for quantifying the entropy for this type of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Holger Metzler , Carlos A. Sierra

In this study we apply the maximum entropy principle to derive the properly scaled velocity distribution function of Boltzmann equations for mixtures, which leads to a non-isothermal Maxwell-Stefan diffusion model. We also analyze the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Benjamin Anwasia , Srboljub Simić

In this article a classification of some proposed macroscopic entropy production (MEP) principles is given. With the help of simple electrical network models, at least six interesting and most used principles are distinguished: the least…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stijn Bruers

The method of Maximum (relative) Entropy (ME) is used to translate the information contained in the known form of the likelihood into a prior distribution for Bayesian inference. The argument is guided by intuition gained from the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Ariel Caticha , Roland Preuss

In most data-scientific approaches, the principle of Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) is used to a posteriori justify some parametric model which has been already chosen based on experience, prior knowledge or computational simplicity. In a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-29 Orestis Loukas , Ho Ryun Chung

We study maximum-entropy inference for finite-dimensional quantum states under linear moment constraints. Given expectation values of finitely many observables, the feasible set of states is convex but typically non-unique. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 James Tian

We show that the Jaynes principle is indeed a proper inference scheme when applied to compound systems and will correctly produce the entangled maximum entropy states compatible with appropriate data. This is accomplished by including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 A. K. Rajagopal

We study the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model, a system of $N$ fully coupled particles, in the microcanonical ensemble. We use the previously obtained free energy in the canonical ensemble to derive entropy as a function of energy, using…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mickael Antoni , Haye Hinrichsen , Stefano Ruffo

We define a one-parameter family of entropies, each assigning a real number to any probability measure on a compact metric space (or, more generally, a compact Hausdorff space with a notion of similarity between points). These entropies…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Tom Leinster , Emily Roff

The maximum entropy principle (MEP) is one of the most prominent methods to investigate and model complex systems. Despite its popularity, the standard form of the MEP can only generate Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, which are ill-suited…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 Pablo A. Morales , Fernando E. Rosas

Using the Dissipation Theorem and a corollary of the Fluctuation Theorem, namely the Second Law Inequality, we give a first-principles derivation of Boltzmann's postulate of equal a priori probability in phase space for the microcanonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-11 Denis J. Evans , Debra J. Searles , Stephen R. Williams

In this paper, we show how the MEP hypothesis may be used to build simple climate models without representing explicitly the energy transport by the atmosphere. The purpose is twofold. First, we assess the performance of the MEP hypothesis…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Corentin Herbert , Didier Paillard

Given physical systems, counting rule for their statistical mechanical descriptions need not be unique, in general. It is shown that this nonuniqueness leads to the existence of various canonical ensemble theories which equally arise from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sumiyoshi Abe , A. K. Rajagopal

We review a new form of entropy suggested by us, with origin in mixing of states of systems due to interactions and deformations of phase cells. It is demonstrated that this nonextensive form also leads to asymmetric maximal entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-16 Fariel Shafee

In this work we generalize and combine Gibbs and von Neumann approaches to build, for the first time, a rigorous definition of entropy for hybrid quantum-classical systems. The resulting function coincides with the two cases above when the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 J. L. Alonso , C. Bouthelier , A. Castro , J. Clemente-Gallardo , J. A. Jover-Galtier

The maximum entropy principle advocates to evaluate events' probabilities using a distribution that maximizes entropy among those that satisfy certain expectations' constraints. Such principle can be generalized for arbitrary decision…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-16 Santiago Mazuelas , Yuan Shen , Aritz Pérez

Recently, a new type of set, named as random permutation set (RPS), is proposed by considering all the permutations of elements in a certain set. For measuring the uncertainty of RPS, the entropy of RPS is presented. However, the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jixiang Deng , Yong Deng