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We review recent progress in understanding certain aspects of the thermodynamics of black holes and other horizons. Our discussion centers on various ``entropy bounds'' which have been proposed in the literature and on the current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Donald Marolf

The two key characteristics of a normalizing flow is that it is invertible (in particular, dimension preserving) and that it monitors the amount by which it changes the likelihood of data points as samples are propagated along the network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Bálint Máté , Samuel Klein , Tobias Golling , François Fleuret

Entropy production (EP) is known as a fundamental quantity for measuring the irreversibility of processes in thermal equilibrium and states far from equilibrium. In stochastic thermodynamics, the EP becomes more visible in terms of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jaewoo Jung , Jaegon Um , Deokjae Lee , Yong W. Kim , D. Y. Lee , H. K. Pak , B. Kahng

There are three ways to conceptualize entropy: entropy as an extensive thermodynamic quantity of physical systems (Clausius, Boltzmann, Gibbs), entropy as a measure for information production of ergodic sources (Shannon), and entropy as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-05 Stefan Thurner , Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Rudolf Hanel

Entropy is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory that allows to quantify entanglement and investigate its properties, for example its monogamy over multipartite systems. Here, we derive variational formulas for relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel

Spectral properties of an arbitrary matrix can be characterized by the entropy of its rescaled singular values. Any quantum operation can be described by the associated dynamical matrix or by the corresponding superoperator. The entropy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 Wojciech Roga , Zbigniew Puchała , Łukasz Rudnicki , Karol Życzkowski

We consider a simplified version of a solvable model by Mandal and Jarzynski, which constructively demonstrates the interplay between work extraction and the increase of the Shannon entropy of an information reservoir which is in contact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-31 Neri Merhav

We study the hydrodynamic description of collective dynamics driven by velocity {\it alignment}. It is known that such Euler alignment systems must flock towards a limiting ``flocking'' velocity, provided their solutions remain globally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Eitan Tadmor

The property of Tsallis entropy is examined when considering tow systems with different temperatures to be in contact with each other and to reach the thermal equilibrium. It is verified that the total Tsallis entropy of the two systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jiulin Du

Transfer entropy is capable of capturing nonlinear source-destination relations between multi-variate time series. It is a measure of association between source data that are transformed into destination data via a set of linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 David Sigtermans

We compute the entropy of a Rindler particle-detector (observer) in the presence of a quantum field in the Minkowski vacuum state; due to the Unruh effect, the observer is immersed in a thermal bath at a temperature proportional to its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Brauer , E. Kirchuk , L. Raviola , M. Socolovsky

We analyze the nature of the structural order established in liquid TIP4P water in the framework provided by the multi-particle correlation expansion of the statistical entropy. Different regimes are mapped onto the phase diagram of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-25 Rubens Esposito , Franz Saija , A. Marco Saitta , Paolo V. Giaquinta

In this paper, we introduce the notion of recurrence entropy in the context of nonlinear control systems. A set is said to be ($\tau$-)recurrent if every trajectory that starts in the set returns to it (within at most $\tau$ units of time).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Hussein Sibai , Enrique Mallada

Accurate fading characterization and channel capacity determination are of paramount importance in both conventional and emerging communication systems. The present work addresses the nonlinearity of the propagation medium and its effects…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Sami Muhaidat , Mikko Valkama , Mounir Ghogho , George K. Karagiannidis

The major problem in information theoretic analysis of neural responses and other biological data is the reliable estimation of entropy--like quantities from small samples. We apply a recently introduced Bayesian entropy estimator to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Ilya Nemenman , William Bialek , Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck

Let $A$ and $B$ be two accretive operators. We first introduce the weighted geometric mean of $A$ and $B$ together with some related properties. Afterwards, we define the relative entropy as well as the Tsallis entropy of $A$ and $B$. The…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-23 M. Raïssouli , M. S. Moslehian , S. Furuichi

One of the most influential results in neural network theory is the universal approximation theorem [1, 2, 3] which states that continuous functions can be approximated to within arbitrary accuracy by single-hidden-layer feedforward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Clemens Hutter , Recep Gül , Helmut Bölcskei

The additional information carried by an enlarged filtration and its measurement was studied by several authors. Already Meyer (Sur un theoreme de J. Jacod, 1978) and Yor (Entropie d'une partition, et grossissement initial d'une filtration,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Anna Aksamit

Two general upper bounds on the topological entropy of nonlinear time-varying systems are established: one using the matrix measure of the system Jacobian, the other using the largest real part of the eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Guosong Yang , Daniel Liberzon

We develop the framework of classical Observational entropy, which is a mathematically rigorous and precise framework for non-equilibrium thermodynamics, explicitly defined in terms of a set of observables. Observational entropy can be seen…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 Dominik Šafránek , Anthony Aguirre , J. M. Deutsch