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A central task in analyzing complex dynamics is to determine the loci of information storage and the communication topology of information flows within a system. Over the last decade and a half, diagnostics for the latter have come to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-20 Ryan G. James , Nix Barnett , James P. Crutchfield

We simulate the canonical Vicsek model and estimate the flow of information as a function of noise (the variability in the extent to which each animal aligns with its neighbours). We show that the global transfer entropy for finite flocks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Joshua Brown , Terry Bossomaier , Lionel Barnett

(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 consider the formalism of information decomposition of target effects from multi-source interactions, i.e. the problem of defining redundant and synergistic components of the information that a set of source variables provides about a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Daniele Marinazzo , Leonardo Angelini , Mario Pellicoro , Sebastiano Stramaglia

We present the first detailed numerical study in three dimensions of a first-order phase transition that remains first-order in the presence of quenched disorder (specifically, the ferromagnetic/paramagnetic transition of the site-diluted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-13 L. A. Fernandez , A. Gordillo-Guerrero , V. Martin-Mayor , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

The $n$-index R\'enyi mutual information and transfer entropy for the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model with arbitrary single-spin dynamics in the thermodynamic limit are derived as functions of thermodynamic quantities. By means of Monte…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-22 Zhehui Deng , Jinshan Wu , Wenan Guo

The pattern of isentropes in the vicinity of a first-order phase transition is proposed as a key for a sub-classification. While the confinement--deconfinement transition, conjectured to set in beyond a critical end point in the QCD phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Falk Wunderlich , Roman Yaresko , Burkhard Kampfer

Phase transitions, as one of the most intriguing phenomena in nature, are divided into first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones in current classification. While the latter shows striking phenomena of scaling and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yuxiang Zhang , Fan Zhong

Understanding nonequilibrium systems and the consequences of irreversibility for the system's behavior as compared to the equilibrium case, is a fundamental question in statistical physics. Here, we investigate two types of nonequilbrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-26 Thomas Martynec , Sabine H. L. Klapp , Sarah A. M. Loos

The microscopic model in which nodes interacting with each other are statistical systems is introduced. The nodes conditions are connected with a string of distinct microscopic configurations and depend on external parameters (pressure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Stepanov

It is generally accepted that, when moving in groups, animals process information to coordinate their motion. Recent studies have begun to apply rigorous methods based on Information Theory to quantify such distributed computation.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-05 Emanuele Crosato , Li Jiang , Valentin Lecheval , Joseph T. Lizier , X. Rosalind Wang , Pierre Tichit , Guy Theraulaz , Mikhail Prokopenko

A foundational assumption in complex-system collapse studies is that critical transitions are second-order, preceded by early-warning signals like rising autocorrelation, variance, and critical slowing down (Scheffer, 2009). We show this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Truong Xuan Khanh , Truong Quynh Hoa

We simulate the Vicsek model utilising topological neighbour interactions and estimate information theoretic quantities as a function of noise, the variability in the extent to which each animal aligns with its neighbours, and the flock…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Joshua Brown , Terry Bossomaier , Lionel Barnett

We set out to explore the possibility of investigating the critical behavior of systems with first-order phase transition using deep machine learning. We propose a machine learning protocol with ternary classification of instantaneous spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Diana Sukhoverkhova , Vyacheslav Mozolenko , Lev Shchur

The $q$-state Potts model is an archetypical model for various types of phase transitions. We consider it on the square grid and focus on the regime where it undergoes a discontinuous transition, that is $q>4$. At the transition point…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Moritz Dober , Alexander Glazman , Sébastien Ott

Phase transition in the two-dimensional $q$-state Potts model with random ferromagnetic couplings in the large-q limit is conjectured to be described by the isotropic version of the infinite randomness fixed point of the random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J-Ch. Angles d'Auriac , F. Igloi

To understand the phase transition phenomena, information theoretical approaches can pick up some important properties of the phenomena based on the probability distribution. In this paper, we show information theoretical aspects of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 Kouji Kashiwa , Hiroaki Kouno

The q-state Potts model can be formulated in geometric terms, with Fortuin-Kasteleyn (FK) clusters as fundamental objects. If the phase transition of the model is second order, it can be equivalently described as a percolation transition of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Fortunato , H. Satz

Both quantum phase transitions and thermodynamic phase transitions are probably induced by fluctuations, yet the specific mechanism through which fluctuations cause phase transitions remains unclear in existing theories. This paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yonglong Ding

We study the phase transition of the Ising model in networks with core-periphery structures. By Monte Carlo simulations, we show that prior to the order-disorder phase transition the system organizes into an inhomogeneous intermediate phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-12 Hanshuang Chen , Haifeng Zhang , Chuansheng Shen
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