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Diffusion-a measure of dynamics, and entropy-a measure of disorder in the system, are found to be intimately correlated in many systems, and the correlation is often strongly non-linear. We explore the origin of this complex dependence by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Kazuhiko Seki , Biman Bagchi

We use the formalism of 'Maximum Principle of Shannon's Entropy' to derive the general power law distribution function, using what seems to be a reasonable physical assumption, namely, the demand of a constant mean "internal order"…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yaniv Dover

Relating thermodynamic and kinetic properties is a conceptual challenge with many practical benefits. Here, based on first principles, we derive a rigorous inequality relating the entropy and the dynamic propagator of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-11 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

In the dynamics of open quantum systems, the backflow of information to the reduced system under study has been suggested as the actual physical mechanism inducing memory and thus leading to non-Markovian quantum dynamics. To this aim, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nina Megier , Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini

The dynamics of molecular collisions in a macroscopic body are encoded by the parameter Thermodynamic entropy - a statistical measure of the number of molecular configurations that correspond to a given macrostate. Directionality in the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-22 Lloyd Demetrius , Christian Wolf

The science of thermodynamics was put together in the Nineteenth Century to describe large systems in equilibrium. One part of thermodynamics defines entropy for equilibrium systems and demands an ever-increasing entropy for non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-26 Leo P. Kadanoff

In classical information theory, a causal relationship between two variables is typically modelled by assuming that, for every possible state of one of the variables, there exists a particular distribution of states of the second variable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Joel R. Peck , David Waxman

Competition for a limited resource is the hallmark of many complex systems, and often, that resource turns out to be the physical space itself. In this work, we study a novel model designed to elucidate the dynamics and emergence in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-18 Ann Mary Mathew , V Sasidevan

Diffusivity, a measure for how rapidly a fluid self-mixes, shows an intimate, but seemingly fragmented, connection to thermodynamics. On one hand, the "configurational" contribution to entropy (related to the number of mechanically-stable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeetain Mittal , Jeffrey R. Errington , Thomas M. Truskett

In this article, we study a thermodynamically consistent thermo-visco-elastic model describing the balance of internal energy in a heat-conducting inelastic body. In the considered problem, the temperature dependence appears in both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Tomasz Cieślak , Sebastian Owczarek , Karolina Wielgos

In the above mentioned paper by J. Dunkel and S. A. Trigger [Phys. Rev. {\bf A 71}, 052102, (2005)] a hypothesis has been pursued that the loss of information associated with the quantum evolution of pure states, quantified in terms of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piotr Garbaczewski

With the rapid discovery of emergent phenomena in deep learning and large language models, understanding their cause has become an urgent need. Here, we propose a rigorous entropic-force theory for understanding the learning dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Liu Ziyin , Yizhou Xu , Isaac Chuang

We review the behaviour of the Gibbs' and conditional entropies in deterministic and stochastic systems and continue to a formulation appropriate for a stochastically perturbed system with delayed dynamics. The underlying question driving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Michael C. Mackey , Marta Tyran-Kaminska

A complete mathematical theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of stochastic systems in terms of master equations is presented. As generalizations of isothermal entropy and free energy, two functions of states play central roles: the Gibbs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-28 Hao Ge , Hong Qian

A unified thermodynamic formalism describing the efficiency of learning is proposed. First, we derive an inequality, which is more strength than Clausius's inequality, revealing the lower bound of the entropy-production rate of a subsystem.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Shanhe Su , Ousi Pan , Shihao Xia , Jincan Chen , Chikako Uchiyama

A hypothesis proposed in the paper (Entropy 2017, 19, 345) on the deductive formulation of a physical theory based on explicitly- and universally-introduced basic concepts is further developed. An entropic measure of time with a number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Leonid M. Martyushev , Evgenii V. Shaiapin

This paper states the case for applying the conceptual and analytic tools associated with the study of entropy in physical systems to cognition, focusing on creative cognition. It is proposed that minds modify their contents and adapt to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-14 Liane Gabora

Adaptation is used by biological sensory systems to respond to a wide range of environmental signals, by adapting their response properties to the statistics of the stimulus in order to maximize information transmission. We derive rules of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-14 Daniele Conti , Thierry Mora

Human dynamical social networks encode information and are highly adaptive. To characterize the information encoded in the fast dynamics of social interactions, here we introduce the entropy of dynamical social networks. By analysing a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-17 Kun Zhao , Márton Karsai , Ginestra Bianconi

An information theory model is used to construct a molecular explanation why hydrophobic solvation entropies measured in calorimetry of protein unfolding converge at a common temperature. The entropy convergence follows from the weak…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Shekhar Garde , Gerhard Hummer , Angel E. Garcia , Michael E. Paulaitis , Lawrence R. Pratt