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We investigate how undecidability enters into computations of classical physical systems and contributes to the increase of entropy and loss of information. In actual computation with finite bit of information capacity we accept…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-13 Sungyun Kim

Evaluating the channel capacity is one of many key problems in information theory. In this work we derive rather-mild sufficient conditions under which the capacity is finite and achievable. These conditions are derived for generic,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Jihad Fahs , Ibrahim Abou-Faycal

With the recent development of quantum information theory, some attempts exist to construct information theory beyond quantum theory. Here we consider hypothesis testing relative entropy and one-shot classical capacity, that is, the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Shintaro Minagawa , Hayato Arai

We investigate state estimation of linear systems over channels having a finite state not known by the transmitter or receiver. We show that similar to memoryless channels, zero-error capacity is the right figure of merit for achieving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Amir Saberi , Farhad Farokhi , Girish N. Nair

This paper considers the problem of stabilizing a discrete-time non-linear stochastic system over a finite capacity noiseless channel. Our focus is on systems which decompose into a stable and unstable component, and the stability notion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Nicolás Garcia , Christoph Kawan , Serdar Yüksel

The information-theoretic representation of quantum systems, which complements the familiar energy description of the density-functional and wave-function-based theories, is here discussed. According to it, the internal disorder of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 J. S. Dehesa , D. Manzano , P. S. Sánchez-Moreno , R. J. Yáñez

Maximum entropy estimation is of broad interest for inferring properties of systems across many different disciplines. In this work, we significantly extend a technique we previously introduced for estimating the maximum entropy of a set of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-05 Elliot A. Martin , Jaroslav Hlinka , Alexander Meinke , Filip Děchtěrenko , Jörn Davidsen

It is not obvious how to extend Shannon's original information entropy to higher dimensions, and many different approaches have been tried. We replace the English text symbol sequence originally used to illustrate the theory by a discrete,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Kieran G. Larkin

The design of error-correcting codes used in modern communications relies on information theory to quantify the capacity of a noisy channel to send information [1]. This capacity can be expressed using the mutual information between input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 M. B. Hastings

In this work, conditional entropy is used to quantify the information loss induced by passing a continuous random variable through a memoryless nonlinear input-output system. We derive an expression for the information loss depending on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Bernhard C. Geiger , Christian Feldbauer , Gernot Kubin

Our capacity to process information depends on the computational power at our disposal. Information theory captures our ability to distinguish states or communicate messages when it is unconstrained with unrivaled beauty and elegance. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Asad Raza , Jacopo Rizzo , Lorenzo Leone , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert

Information theory establishes the fundamental limits on data transmission, storage, and processing. Quantum information theory unites information theoretic ideas with an accurate quantum-mechanical description of reality to give a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Andrew W. Cross , Ke Li , Graeme Smith

The problems of causality, modeling, and control for chaotic, high-dimensional dynamical systems are formulated in the language of information theory. The central quantity of interest is the Shannon entropy, which measures the amount of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Gonzalo Arranz

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

The information entropy budget and the rate of information transfer between variables is studied in the context of a nonlinear reduced-order atmospheric model. The key ingredients of the dynamics are present in this model, namely the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Stéphane Vannitsem , Carlos A. Pires , David Docquier

The rapid scaling of artificial intelligence models has revealed a fundamental tension between model capacity (storage) and inference efficiency (computation). While classical information theory focuses on transmission and storage limits,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jianfeng Xu , Zeyan Li

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

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

The entanglement-assisted classical capacity of a noisy quantum channel is the amount of information per channel use that can be sent over the channel in the limit of many uses of the channel, assuming that the sender and receiver have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Bennett , Peter W. Shor , John A. Smolin , Ashish V. Thapliyal

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