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A quantitative relationship between the diffusion coefficient $D$ of a tagged particle in a liquid and the entropy $S$ of that liquid has long been sought, as it would allow entropy to be inferred directly from diffusion measurements and…

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The concept of entropy in nonequilibrium macroscopic systems is investigated in the light of an extended equation of motion for the density matrix obtained in a previous study. It is found that a time-dependent information entropy can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Grandy

Studies of the thermodynamics of complex coacervation of pairs of symmetric, strongly ionizable, oppositely charged polyelectrolyte chains are abundant. To generalize such understanding to asymmetric chain lengths and variable ionizability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-07 Souradeep Ghosh , Soumik Mitra , Arindam Kundagrami

We investigate the problem of the entropy of the mixture of sources. There is given an estimation of the entropy and entropy dimension of convex combination of measures. The proof is based on our alternative definition of the entropy based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-31 Marek Smieja , Jacek Tabor

It is known that a large, charged body immersed in a solution of multivalent counterions may undergo charge inversion as the counterions adsorb to its surface. We use the theory of charge inversion to examine the case of a deformable,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Brian Skinner , B. I. Shklovskii

An information theory model is used to construct a molecular explanation why hydrophobic solvation entropies measured in calorimetry of protein unfolding converge at a common temperature. The entropy convergence follows from the weak…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Shekhar Garde , Gerhard Hummer , Angel E. Garcia , Michael E. Paulaitis , Lawrence R. Pratt

The irreversible currents and entropy production rate of a dilute colloidal suspension are calculated using the linear irreversible thermodynamics and the linear response theory. The \anomalous" or \hidden" entropy recently discussed in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-24 Kunimasa Miyazaki , Yohei Nakayama , Hiromichi Matsuyama

Entropy is a fundamental thermodynamic quantity indicative of the accessible degrees of freedom in a system. While it has been suggested that the entropy of a mesoscopic system can yield nontrivial information on emergence of exotic states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Yaakov Kleeorin , Holger Thierschmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Antoine Georges , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Yigal Meir

We study nontrivial entropy invariants in the class of parabolic flows on homogeneous spaces, quasi-unipotent flows. We show that topological complexity (ie, slow entropy) can be computed directly from the Jordan block structure of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Adam Kanigowski , Kurt Vinhage , Daren Wei

It is shown that the residual entropy (entropy minus that of the ideal gas at the same temperature and density) is mostly synonymous with the independent variable of density scaling, identifying a direct link between these two approaches.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Ian Bell , Robin Fingerhut , Jadran Vrabec , Lorenzo Costigliola

Information theory on a time-discrete setting in the framework of time series analysis is generalized to the time-continuous case. Considerations of the Roessler and Lorenz dynamics as well as the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process yield for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-04 Detlef Holstein

The notion of metric entropy dimension is introduced to measure the complexity of entropy zero dynamical systems. For measure preserving systems, we define entropy dimension via the dimension of entropy generating sequences. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Dou Dou , Wen Huang , Kyewon Koh Park

In this paper we define unstable topological entropy for any subsets (not necessarily compact or invariant) in partially hyperbolic systems as a Carath\'{e}odory dimension characteristic, motivated by the work of Bowen and Pesin etc. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Xueting Tian , Weisheng Wu

Typically, the entropy of an isolated system in equilibrium is calculated by counting the number of accessible microstates, or in more general cases by using the Gibbs formula. In irreversible processes entropy spontaneously increases and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-16 Taha A Malik , Rafael Lopez-Mobilia

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

Although an intimate relation between entropy and diffusion has been advocated for many years and even seems to have been verified in theory and experiments, a quantitatively reliable study, and any derivation of an algebraic relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-22 Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

We ask the question whether entropy accumulates, in the sense that the operationally relevant total uncertainty about an $n$-partite system $A = (A_1, \ldots A_n)$ corresponds to the sum of the entropies of its parts $A_i$. The Asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Frederic Dupuis , Omar Fawzi , Renato Renner

We derive a functional for the entropy contributed by any microscopic degrees of freedom as arising from their measurable pair correlations. Applicable both in and out of equilibrium, this functional yields the maximum entropy which a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-17 Benjamin Sorkin , Joshua Ricouvier , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

We study the entropy relations of multi-horizons black holes in higher dimensional (A)dS spacetime with maximal symmetries, including Einstein-Maxwell gravity and $f(R)$(-Maxwell) gravity. These additional equalities in thermodynamics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-04 Jia Wang , Wei Xu , Xin-he Meng

Rosenfeld [Phys. Rev. A 15, 2545 (1977)] noticed that casting transport coefficients of simple monatomic, equilibrium fluids in specific dimensionless forms makes them approximately single-valued functions of excess entropy. This has…