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We study the diffusion of information in an overlaying social-physical network. Specifically, we consider the following set-up: There is a physical information network where information spreads amongst people through conventional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Osman Yagan , Dajun Qian , Junshan Zhang , Douglas Cochran

Information and uncertainty are closely related and extensively studied concepts in a number of scientific disciplines such as communication theory, probability theory, and statistics. Increasing the information arguably reduces the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Jiahua Chen

If the information is encoded into the state of the subsystem $S$ of a quantum system initially (at $t=0$), then it becomes distributed over the whole quantum system at $t>0$ due to the quantum interactions. Consequently, this information,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. I. Zenchuk

What kind of object is a quantum state? Is it an object that encodes an exponentially growing amount of information (in the size of the system) or more akin to a probability distribution? It turns out that these questions are sensitive to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Ciarán M. Lee , Matty J. Hoban

The material bases of information - paper, computer discs - usually scale with information quantity. Large quantities of information usually require large material bases. Conventional wisdom has it that human long-term memory locates within…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-05 Donald R. Forsdyke

We relate the information entropy and the mass variance of any distribution in the regime of small fluctuations. We use a set of Monte Carlo simulations of different homogeneous and inhomogeneous distributions to verify the relation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Biswajit Pandey

In this paper, we suppose that the universe has an information processing layer, which coveys the informational contents accompanying the physical events. In this manner, universe is considered to be composed of several associative layers…

General Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Baris Baykant Alagoz

Quantum, in contrast to classical, information theory, allows for different incompatible types (or species) of information which cannot be combined with each other. Distinguishing these incompatible types is useful in understanding the role…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert B. Griffiths

Coding technology is used in several information processing tasks. In particular, when noise during transmission disturbs communications, coding technology is employed to protect the information. However, there are two types of coding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Masahito Hayashi

Thermodynamic entropy is not an entirely satisfactory measure of information of a quantum state. This entropy for an unknown pure state is zero, although repeated measurements on copies of such a pure state do communicate information. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Subhash Kak

The extensive use of social media in the diffusion of information has also laid a fertile ground for the spread of rumors, which could significantly affect the credibility of social media. An ever-increasing number of users post news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Abderrazek Azri , Cécile Favre , Nouria Harbi , Jérôme Darmont

The accessible information quantifies the amount of classical information that can be extracted from an ensemble of quantum states. Analogously, the informational power quantifies the amount of classical information that can be extracted by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Michele Dall'Arno , Francesco Buscemi , Masanao Ozawa

The interplay between two basic quantities -- quantum communication and information -- is investigated. Quantum communication is an important resource for quantum states shared by two parties and is directly related to entanglement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jonathan Oppenheim , Michal Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki

The technological revolution of the Internet has digitized the social, economic, political, and cultural activities of billions of humans. While researchers have been paying due attention to concerns of misinformation and bias, these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Saurabh Khanna

Rest mass takes the place of inertial mass in modern physics textbooks. It seems to be wrong. But this phenomenon is hidden away by the facts that rest mass adherents busily call rest mass "mass", not rest mass, and the word "mass" is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Khrapko

We show that under mild assumptions, the total value of information to informed traders in the market can be measured by the covariance between price changes and order flow. This covariance captures noise trader losses, which equal informed…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-13 Ohad Kadan , Asaf Manela

In this article a revised, to some extent, version of the Information concept as utmost fundamental essence ("The Information and the Matter",v1) is presented - a little more logical grounds and may be of a philosophy, the correction and…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-27 S. V. Shevchenko , V. V. Tokarevsky

The Lieb-Robinson theorem states that information propagates with a finite velocity in quantum systems on a lattice with nearest-neighbor interactions. What are the speed limits on information propagation in quantum systems with power-law…

If a system falls through a black hole horizon, then its information is lost to an observer at infinity. But we argue that the {\it accessible} information is lost {\it before} the horizon is crossed. The temperature of the hole limits…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Samir D. Mathur

"Information is physical", and here we consider the physical directional information of a particle with spin. We ask whether, in the presence of a classical frame of reference, such a particle contains any intrinsic directional information,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Collins , Sandu Popescu