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In the Entropic Dynamics (ED) approach the essence of quantum theory lies in its probabilistic nature while the Hilbert space structure plays a secondary and ultimately optional role. The dynamics of probability distributions is driven by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Ariel Caticha , Nicholas Carrara

Entropic dynamics is a framework for defining dynamical systems that is aligned with the principles of information theory. In an entropic dynamics model for motion on a statistical manifold, we find that the rate of changes for expected…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Pedro Pessoa

In the Entropic Dynamics framework the dynamics is driven by maximizing entropy subject to appropriate constraints. In this work we bring Entropic Dynamics one step closer to full equivalence with quantum theory by identifying constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Nicholas Carrara , Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework that allows the formulation of dynamical theories as an application of entropic methods of inference. In the generic application of ED to derive the Schroedinger equation for N particles the dynamics is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Daniel Bartolomeo , Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics (ED) provides a framework that allows the reconstruction of the quantum formalism by insisting on ontological and epistemic clarity and adopting entropic methods and information geometry. Our present goal is to extend the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Ariel Caticha

It has often been the case in history that the laws of physics have been used as the framework for understanding and implementing information processing. The tacit assumption is that the laws of physics are fundamental and that the notion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Selman Ipek

The general framework of entropic dynamics is used to formulate a relational quantum dynamics. The main new idea is to use tools of information geometry to develop an entropic measure of the mismatch between successive configurations of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 Selman Ipek , Ariel Caticha

We explore the measurement problem in the entropic dynamics approach to quantum theory. The dual modes of quantum evolution---either continuous unitary evolution or abrupt wave function collapse during measurement---are unified by virtue of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 David T. Johnson , Ariel Caticha

Entropic forces result from an increase of the entropy of a thermodynamical physical system. It has been proposed that gravity is such a phenomenon and many articles have appeared on the literature concerning this problem. Loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-20 J. Manuel Garcia-Islas

A vast concourse of events and phenomena occur in nature that may be interrelated by a entropy-maximization technique that provides a comprehensible explanation of a range of physical problems, integrating in a new framework the universal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Mario J Pinheiro

The formulation of quantum mechanics within the framework of entropic dynamics includes several new elements. In this paper we concentrate on one of them: the implications for the theory of time. Entropic time is introduced as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ariel Caticha

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Our approach is to consider quantum fields in curved spacetime as a quantum system undergoing an out-of-equilibrium transformation. The non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Nana Liu , John Goold , Ivette Fuentes , Vlatko Vedral , Kavan Modi , David Edward Bruschi

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is an inference-based framework that seeks to construct dynamical theories of physics without assuming the conventional formalism --- the Hamiltonians, Poisson brackets, Hilbert spaces, etc. --- typically associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Selman Ipek

Understanding the quantum nature of the gravitational field is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges in theoretical physics. Despite significant progress, a complete and consistent theory remains elusive. However, in the weak field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-25 Thiago H Moreira , Lucas C. Céleri

In the Entropic Dynamics (ED) approach to quantum theory the particles have well-defined positions but since they follow non differentiable Brownian trajectories they cannot be assigned an instantaneous momentum. Nevertheless, four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Shahid Nawaz , Ariel Caticha

Symmetries and transformations are explored in the framework of entropic quantum dynamics. Two conditions arise that are required for any transformation to qualify as a symmetry. The heart of this work lies in the application of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 David T. Johnson , Ariel Caticha

In the Entropic Dynamics (ED) derivation of the Schroedinger equation the physical input is introduced through constraints that are implemented using Lagrange multipliers. There is one constraint involving a "drift" potential that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Daniel Bartolomeo , Ariel Caticha

A theory of quantum dynamics based on a discrete structure underlying the space time manifold is developed for single particles. It is shown that at the micro domain the interaction of particles with the underlying discrete structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antony L Tambyrajah

We consider non-linear evolution equations arising from mean-field limits of particle systems on discrete spaces. We investigate a notion of curvature bounds for these dynamics based on convexity of the free energy along interpolations in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Matthias Erbar , Max Fathi , André Schlichting

The Bell-KS theorem and the more recent $\psi$-epistemic \emph{no-go} theorems of QM are discussed in the context of Entropic Dynamics. In doing so we find that the Bell-KS theorem allows for, a perhaps overlooked, hybrid-contextual model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Kevin Vanslette