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Integrated tempering sampling (ITS) method is an approach to enhance the sampling over a broad range of energies and temperatures in computer simulations. In this paper, a new version of integrated tempering sampling method is proposed. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Peng Zhao , Li Jiang Yang , Yi Qin Gao , Zhong-Yuan Lu

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

We propose a method for computing the Kolmogorov-Sinai (KS) entropy of chaotic systems. In this method, the KS entropy is expressed as a statistical average over the canonical ensemble for a Hamiltonian with many ground states. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin-ichi Sasa , Kumiko Hayashi

A new method is presented which allows time averaged density matrices of closed quantum systems to be computed via a constraint overlap maximization. Due to its simplicity, this method can be combined with algorithms based on tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Volckmar Nebendahl

Fast and accurate sampling method is in high demand, in order to bridge the large gaps between molecular dynamic simulations and experimental observations. Recently, integrated tempering enhanced sampling method (ITS) has been proposed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Zhiyi You , Liying Li , Jianfeng Lu , Hao Ge

Transfer Entropy and Directed Information are information-theoretic measures of the directional dependency between stochastic processes. Following the definitions of Schreiber and Massey in discrete time, we define and evaluate these…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Nigel J. Newton

In many real-world situations, there are constraints on the ways in which a physical system can be manipulated. We investigate the entropy production (EP) and extractable work involved in bringing a system from some initial distribution $p$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-22 Artemy Kolchinsky , David H. Wolpert

In this paper we develop a statistical estimation technique to recover the transition kernel $P$ of a Markov chain $X=(X_m)_{m \in \mathbb N}$ in presence of censored data. We consider the situation where only a sub-sequence of $X$ is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-05 Flavia Barsotti , Yohann De Castro , Thibault Espinasse , Paul Rochet

Many modern techniques employed in physics, such a computation of path integrals, rely on random walks on graphs that can be represented as Markov chains. Traditionally, estimates of running times of such sampling algorithms are computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-30 Martin Mihelich , Berengere Dubrulle , Didier Paillard , Davide Faranda , Quentin Kral

The generalized entropic measure, which is optimized by a given arbitrary distribution under the constraints on normalization of the distribution and the finite ordinary expectation value of a physical random quantity, is considered and its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sumiyoshi Abe , G. Kaniadakis , A. M. Scarfone

Entropy production in stochastic mechanical systems is examined here with strict bounds on its rate. Stochastic mechanical systems include pure diffusions in Euclidean space or on Lie groups, as well as systems evolving on phase space for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Gregory S. Chirikjian

In various chemical systems enthalpy-entropy compensation (EEC) is a well-known rule of behavior, although the physical roots of it are still not completely understood. It has been frequently questioned whether EEC is a truly physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. B. Starikov , B. Norden

Estimating the transition dynamics of controlled Markov chains is crucial in fields such as time series analysis, reinforcement learning, and system exploration. Traditional non-parametric density estimation methods often assume independent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Imon Banerjee , Vinayak Rao , Harsha Honnappa

Consider a measure-preserving transition kernel $T$ on an arbitrary probability space $(\mathbb X,\mathcal cA,\pi)$. In this level of generality, we prove that a one-step hyper-contractivity estimate of the form $\|T\|_{p\to q}\le 1$ with…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Justin Salez

Motivation: We consider continuous-time Markov chains that describe the stochastic evolution of a dynamical system by a transition-rate matrix $Q$ which depends on a parameter $\theta$. Computing the probability distribution over states at…

We numerically study the dynamics of entanglement entropy, induced by an oscillating time periodic driving of the transverse field, h(t), of a one-dimensional quantum Ising chain. We consider several realizations of h(t), and we find a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-14 Tony J. G. Apollaro , G. Massimo Palma , Jamir Marino

Entropy is a fundamental thermodynamic quantity that is a measure of the accessible microstates available to a system, with the stability of a system determined by the magnitude of the total entropy of the system. This is valid across truly…

The concept of Entropy plays a key role in Information Theory, Statistics, and Machine Learning.This paper introduces a new entropy measure, called the t-entropy, which exploits the concavity of the inverse-tan function. We analytically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Debolina Paul , Swagatam Das

We consider a strictly substochastic matrix or an stochastic matrix with absorbing states. By using quasi-stationary distributions one shows there is a canonical associated stationary Markov chain. Based upon $2-$stringing representation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Servet Martínez

The modeling of diffusion processes on graphs is the basis for many network science and machine learning approaches. Entropic measures of network-based diffusion have recently been employed to investigate the reversibility of these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Samuel Koovely , Alexandre Bovet