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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

Configurational entropy (CE) and configurational complexity (CC) are recently popularized information theoretic measures used to study the stability of solitons. This paper examines their behavior for 2D and 3D lattice Ising Models, where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-06 Damian R Sowinski , Sean Kelty , Gourab Ghoshal

Entropy governs molecular self-assembly, phase transitions, and material stability, yet remains challenging to quantify and directly control in molecular systems. Here, we demonstrate that the computable information density (CID), a data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ashley Z. Guo , Kaelyn Chang , Nicholas J. Corrente

Although the notion of entropy lies at the core of statistical mechanics, it is not often used in statistical mechanical models to characterize phase transitions, a role more usually played by quantities such as various order parameters,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 D. A. Johnston , W. Janke , R. Kenna

The so-called configurational entropy (CE) framework has proved to be an efficient instrument to study nonlinear scalar field models featuring solutions with spatially-localized energy, since its proposal by Gleiser and Stamapoulos.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-18 W. T. Cruz , D. M. Dantas , R. A. C. Correa , C. A. S. Almeida

The information theoretic observables entropy (a measure of disorder), excess entropy (a measure of complexity) and multi information are used to analyze ground-state spin configurations for disordered and frustrated model systems in 2D and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 O. Melchert , A. K. Hartmann

We use quantum information measures to study the local quantum phase transition that occurs for trapped spinless fermions in one-dimensional lattices. We focus on the case of a harmonic confinement. The transition occurs upon increasing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-10 Yicheng Zhang , Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

Electromagnetic transitions involving nucleons and their resonances are here presented in the fermionic sector of the AdS/QCD soft-wall model, using the differential configurational entropy (DCE) as a measure of information entropy. The DCE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-18 Roldao da Rocha

The statistical properties of physical systems in thermal equilibrium are blatantly different from their far-from-equilibrium counterparts. In the latter, fluctuations often dominate the dynamics and might cluster in ordered patterns in the…

The element Ce exhibits an isostructural $\gamma-\alpha$ phase transition with a 15\% volume change at room temperature. The phase boundary ends in a critical point at 1.5 GPa and 480 K. We describe a model for the equation of state of Ce…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 C. W. Greeff , S. D. Crockett , K. G. Honnell

Biological sensory systems react to changes in their surroundings. They are characterized by fast response and slow adaptation to varying environmental cues. Insofar as sensory adaptive systems map environmental changes to changes of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-15 Pablo Sartori , Léo Granger , Chiu Fan Lee , Jordan M. Horowitz

(abridged) In this paper, we present the issues we consider as essential as far as the statistical mechanics of finite systems is concerned. In particular, we emphasis our present understanding of phase transitions in the framework of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-20 P. Chomaz , F. Gulminelli

We study an opinion formation model by the means of a co-evolving complex network where the vertices represent the individuals, characterised by their evolving opinions, and the edges represent the interactions among them. The network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Enrique Burgos , Laura Hernandez , Horacio Ceva , Roberto P. J. Perazzo

A systematic analysis of low temperature magnetic phase diagrams of Ce compounds is performed in order to recognize the thermodynamic conditions to be fulfilled by those systems to reach a quantum critical regime and, alternatively, to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Julian G. Sereni

We systematically investigate the entanglement and information dynamics of quasiperiodic systems across their extended, critical, and localized phases, aiming to identify dynamical signatures that can reveal the multifractal spatial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-21 Huaijin Dong , Long Zhang

Phase transitions abound in nature and society, and, from species extinction to stock market collapse, their prediction is of widespread importance. In earlier work we showed that Global Transfer Entropy, a general measure of information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-12 Joshua Brown , Terry Bossomaier , Lionel Barnett

Configurational information is generated when three or more sources of variance interact. The variations not only disturb each other relationally, but by selecting upon each other, they are also positioned in a configuration. A…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-10 Loet Leydesdorff

Complex adaptive systems (CAS) can be described as systems of information flows dynamically interacting across scales in order to adapt and survive. CAS often consist of many components that work towards a shared goal, and interact across…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Louisa Jane Di Felice , Ada Diaconescu , Payam Zahadat , Patricia Mellodge

Correlation functions and correlation lengths are frequently used to describe phase transitions in quantum systems, but they require an explicit choice of observables. The recently introduced information lattice instead provides an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-01 William Skoglund , Elton Giacomelli , Yiqi Yang , Jens H. Bardarson , Erik van Loon

Coarse-grained measurements offer a scalable alternative to full state tomography for characterizing complex quantum dynamics. We show that observational entropy (OE), an information-theoretic entropy defined directly from finite-resolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 J. Bharathi Kannan , Sreeram PG , M. S. Santhanam
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