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This overview of integrated information theory (IIT) emphasizes IIT's "consciousness-first" approach to what exists. Consciousness demonstrates to each of us that something exists--experience--and reveals its essential properties--the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-23 Giulio Tononi , Melanie Boly

Partial orders have been used to model several experimental setups, going from classical thermodynamics and general relativity to the quantum realm with its resource theories. In order to study such experimental setups, one typically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Pedro Hack , Daniel A. Braun , Sebastian Gottwald

The intuition that a long history is required for the emergence of complexity in natural systems is formalized using the notion of depth. The depth of a system is defined in terms of the number of parallel computational steps needed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 J. Machta

The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realised.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

In this work we present SIFT, a 3-step algorithm for the analysis of the structural information represented by means of a taxonomy. The major advantage of this algorithm is the capability to leverage the information inherent to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Jorge Martinez-Gil

The experience from Quantum Information has lead us to look at Quantum Theory (QT) and the whole Physics from a different angle. The information-theoretical paradigm---"It from Bit'---prophesied by John Archibald Wheeler is relentlessly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

We discuss the conditions for an effective field theory (EFT) to give an adequate low-energy description of an underlying physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Starting from the EFT where the SM is extended by dimension-6 operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-08 Roberto Contino , Adam Falkowski , Florian Goertz , Christophe Grojean , Francesco Riva

We study the question of how reliably one can distinguish two quantum field theories (QFTs). Each QFT defines a probability distribution on the space of fields. The relative entropy provides a notion of proximity between these distributions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Vijay Balasubramanian , Jonathan J. Heckman , Alexander Maloney

We define the concept of dependence among multiple variables using maximum entropy techniques and introduce a graphical notation to denote the dependencies. Direct inference of information theoretic quantities from data uncovers…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-07-13 Ilya Nemenman

Information theory is a mathematical theory of learning with deep connections with topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, statistical physics, and biological evolution. Many primers on information theory paint a broad picture with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Philip Chodrow

Information algebra is algebraic structure for local computation and inference. Given an initial universe set and a parameter set, we show that a soft set system over them is an information algebra. Moreover, in a soft set system, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Xuechong Guan , Yongming Li

Open effective field theories provide a systematic framework for describing physical systems interacting with an environment whose microscopic details are unknown, unobservable, or uncalculable. A basic step in constructing any effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 Enrica Lausdei , Enrico Pajer

We argue in a quantitative way that the unitarity principle of quantum field theory together with the quantum information bound on correlation functions are in tension with a space which is made out of disconnected patches at microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-05 Amir-Pouyan Khosravi , Frank Saueressig

Information Field Dynamics (IFD) by Torsten En{\ss}lin provides a tool to construct simulation schemes for data vectors $d(T)$ from measurements $d(0)$ which describe certain features of a physical process (signal), without any concrete…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Christian Münch

Although there is growing interest in measuring integrated information in computational and cognitive systems, current methods for doing so in practice are computationally unfeasible. Existing and novel integration measures are investigated…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-08 Max Tegmark

All but a few digital computers used for scientific computations have supported floating-point and digital arithmetic of rather limited numerical precision. The underlying assumptions were that the systems being studied were basically…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Foster Morrison

In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, modelling, and ultimately controlling complex systems: systems comprised of a large number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Thomas F. Varley

Effective field theories, like the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), are defined by a chosen field content and a set of symmetries, up to a cut off scale $\Lambda$. Usually, in order to perform calculations, gauge independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-06 Michael Trott

The use of effective field theory offers a systematic way to improve calculations of nuclear reactions and the properties of atomic nuclei. Its successes have led to the widespread belief that the predictions of this approach are model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Anthony W. Thomas

Understanding human mobility is crucial for applications such as forecasting epidemic spreading, planning transport infrastructure and urbanism in general. While, traditionally, mobility information has been collected via surveys, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-02 Mattia Mazzoli , Alex Molas , Aleix Bassolas , Maxime Lenormand , Pere Colet , Jose J. Ramasco