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An axiomatic foundation regarding the entropy for complex systems is established. Missing from decades of research was the requirement that entropy must measure the uncertainty at the informational scale of the maximizing distribution,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Kenric P. Nelson

Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities generalize Shannon's chain rule for entropy as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Prasad Tetali

We investigate the critical behavior of continuous phase transitions in the context of Ginzburg Landau models with a double well effective potential. In particular, we show that the recently proposed configurational entropy, a measure of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-10 Marcelo Gleiser , Damian Sowinski

A method for estimating the Shannon differential entropy of multidimensional random variables using independent samples is described. The method is based on decomposing the distribution into a product of the marginal distributions and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Gil Ariel , Yoram Louzoun

The procedure of maximization of information entropy can be used to improve our knowledge of parton distributions. This method has been applied in order to achieve improved description of the nuclear effect in Y production due to gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Athanasios N. Petridis

Can we learn more from data than existed in the generating process itself? Can new and useful information be constructed from merely applying deterministic transformations to existing data? Can the learnable content in data be evaluated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Marc Finzi , Shikai Qiu , Yiding Jiang , Pavel Izmailov , J. Zico Kolter , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Turbulence may appear as a complex process with a multitude of scales and flow patterns, but still obeys simple physical principles such as the conservation of momentum, of energy, and the maximum entropy principle. The latter states that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-23 T. -W. Lee

The ultimate purpose of the statistical analysis of ordinal patterns is to characterize the distribution of the features they induce. In particular, knowing the joint distribution of the pair Entropy-Statistical Complexity for a large class…

We analyze the critical connectivity of systems of penetrable $d$-dimensional spheres having size distributions in terms of weighed random geometrical graphs, in which vertex coordinates correspond to random positions of the sphere centers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-11 Claudio Grimaldi

Ever since Claude Shannon used entropy for his "Mathematical Theory of Communication", entropy has become a buzzword in research circles with scientists applying entropy to describe any phenomena that are reminiscent of disorder. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Temitayo Adefemi

We have used information theory analogue of entropy, Shannon entropy, for estimating the variations during the isotropic and anisotropic AuNP fractal growth process. We have firstly applied the Shannon entropy on the simulated fractal…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-12-21 Anurag Singh , Anushree Roy , Amar Nath Gupta

We analyse the cluster discovered by invasion percolation on a branching process with a power-law offspring distribution. Invasion percolation is a paradigm model of self-organised criticality, where criticality is approached without tuning…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Rowel Gündlach , Remco van der Hofstad

The electrical activity of external anal sphincter can be registered with surface electromyography. This signals are known to be highly complex and nonlinear. This work aims in characterisation of the information carried in the signals by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Paulina Trybek , Michal Nowakowski , Jerzy Salowka , Lukasz Machura

The information entropies in coordinate and momentum spaces and their sum ($S_r$, $S_k$, $S$) are evaluated for many nuclei using "experimental" densities or/and momentum distributions. The results are compared with the harmonic oscillator…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. E. Massen , V. P. Psonis , A. N. Antonov

The position- and momentum-space information entropies of the electron distributions of atomic clusters are calculated using a Woods-Saxon single particle potential. The same entropies are also calculated for nuclear distributions according…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Massen , C. P. Panos

Percolation refers to the emergence of a giant connected cluster in a disordered system when the number of connections between nodes exceeds a critical value. The percolation phase transitions were believed to be continuous until recently…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-13 R. A. da Costa , S. N. Dorogovtsev , A. V. Goltsev , J. F. F. Mendes

Let us consider subcritical Bernoulli percolation on a connected, transitive, infinite and locally finite graph. In this paper, we propose a new (and short) proof of the exponential decay property for the volume of clusters. We do not rely…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Hugo Vanneuville

We present a technique for entropy optimization to calculate a distribution from its moments. The technique is based upon maximizing a discretized form of the Shannon entropy functional by mapping the problem onto a dual space where an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bandyopadhyay , A. K. Bhattacharya , Parthapratim Biswas , D. A. Drabold

Shannon entropy was defined for probability distributions and then its using was expanded to measure the uncertainty of knowledge for systems with complete information. In this article, it is proposed to extend the using of Shannon entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Vasile Patrascu

Current advancements in communication equipment demand the investigation of classical information transfer over quantum channels, by encompassing realistic scenarios in finite dimensions. To address this issue, we develop a framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sudipta Mondal , Pritam Halder , Saptarshi Roy , Aditi Sen De