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A computational procedure is developed for determining the conversion probability for reaction-diffusion systems in which a first-order catalytic reaction is performed over active particles. We apply this general method to systems on metric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-19 Renato Feres , Matthew Wallace , Ari Stern , Gregory Yablonsky

A central concept in the connection between physics and information theory is entropy, which represents the amount of information extracted from the system by the observer performing measurements in an experiment. Indeed, Jaynes' principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Matheus Capela , Mikel Sanz , Enrique Solano , Lucas C. Céleri

Using previous experimental data of diffusion in metallic alloys, we obtain real values for an interpolation parameter introduced in a mean-field theory for diffusion with interaction. Values of order 1 were found as expected, finding…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Marisel Di Pietro Martínez , Miguel Hoyuelos

This is an attempt to address diffusion phenomena from the point of view of information theory. We imagine a regular hamiltonian system under the random perturbation of thermal (molecular) noise and chaotic instability. The irregularity of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang

Spiking activity from populations of neurons display causal interactions and memory effects. Therefore, they are expected to show some degree of irreversibility in time. Motivated by the spike train statistics, in this paper we build a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Rodrigo Cofre , Cesar Maldonado

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are a powerful tool for studying matter at the atomic scale. However, to simulate solids, an initial atomic structure is crucial for the successful execution of MD simulations, but can be difficult to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Lars Dammann , Richard Kohns , Patrick Huber , Robert H. Meißner

We present a quantum information theory that allows for the consistent description of quantum entanglement. It parallels classical (Shannon) information theory but is based entirely on density matrices, rather than probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas J. Cerf , Chris Adami

Maximum Entropy is a powerful concept that entails a sharp separation between relevant and irrelevant variables. It is typically invoked in inference, once an assumption is made on what the relevant variables are, in order to estimate a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-09 Luigi Gresele , Matteo Marsili

In information theory, one major goal is to find useful functions that summarize the amount of information contained in the interaction of several random variables. Specifically, one can ask how the classical Shannon entropy, mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Leon Lang , Pierre Baudot , Rick Quax , Patrick Forré

Methods have been developed to identify the probability distribution of a random vector $Z$ from information consisting of its bounded range and the probability density function or moments of a quantity of interest, $Q(Z)$. The mapping from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Wayne Isaac T. Uy , Mircea D. Grigoriu

Probability theory is fundamental for modeling uncertainty, with traditional probabilities being real and non-negative. Complex probability extends this concept by allowing complex-valued probabilities, opening new avenues for analysis in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Chan Li , Hejun Xu , Zhu Cao

A procedure for unfolding the true distribution from experimental data is presented. Machine learning methods are applied for simultaneous identification of an apparatus function and solving of an inverse problem. A priori information about…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-26 Nikolai Gagunashvili

The assessment of the probability of a rare event with a naive Monte-Carlo method is computationally intensive, so faster estimation or variance reduction methods are needed. We focus on one of these methods which is the interacting…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-06 H. Chraibi , A. Dutfoy , T. Galtier , J. Garnier

While most approaches to the problem of Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) focus on estimating a reward function that best explains an expert agent's policy or demonstrated behavior on a control task, it is often the case that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Dexter R. R. Scobee , S. Shankar Sastry

The entropy is a measure of uncertainty that plays a central role in information theory. When the distribution of the data is unknown, an estimate of the entropy needs be obtained from the data sample itself. We propose a semi-parametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-06 Stéphane Robin , Luca Scrucca

We develop a generalized Newton scheme IHNC for the construction of effective pair potentials for systems of interacting point-like particles.The construction is made in such a way that the distribution of the particles matches a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Fabrice Delbary , Martin Hanke , Dmitry Ivanizki

We present a promising coarse-graining strategy for linking micro- and mesoscales of soft matter systems. The approach is based on effective pairwise interaction potentials obtained from detailed atomistic molecular dynamics (MD)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Lyubartsev , M. Karttunen , I. Vattulainen , A. Laaksonen

Statistical systems composed of atoms interacting with each other trough nonintegrable interaction potentials are considered. Examples of these potentials are hard-core potentials and long-range potentials, for instance, the Lennard-Jones…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 V. I. Yukalov

We propose entropic measures for the strength of single-particle and two-particle interference in interferometric experiments where each particle of a pair traverses a multi-path interferometer. Optimal single-particle interference excludes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dagomir Kaszlikowski , L. C. Kwek , Marek Zukowski , Berthold-Georg Englert

The inverse problem in optics, which is closely related to the classical question of the resolving power, is reconsidered as a communication channel problem. The main result is the evaluation of the maximum number $M_\epsilon$ of…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-05 Enrico De Micheli , Giovanni Alberto Viano