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Information geometry provides a tool to systematically investigate parameter sensitivity of the state of a system. If a physical system is described by a linear combination of eigenstates of a complex (that is, non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Dorje C. Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe

Connections between information theory and thermodynamics have proven to be very useful to establish bounding limits for physical processes. Ideas such as Landauer's erasure principle and information assisted work extraction have greatly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Kaonan Micadei , Roberto M. Serra , Lucas C. Celeri

The Glansdorff and Prigogine General Evolution Criterion (GEC) is an inequality that holds for macroscopic physical systems obeying local equilibrium and that are constrained under timeindependent boundary conditions. The latter, however,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 David Hochberg , Isabel Herreros

Irreversible processes accomplished in a fixed time involve nonlinearly coupled flows of matter, energy, and information. Here, using entropy production as an example, we show how thermodynamic uncertainty relations and speed limits on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Schuyler B. Nicholson , Jason R. Green

We develop an information-theoretic approach to isoperimetric inequalities based on entropy dissipation under heat flow. By viewing diffusion as a noisy information channel, we measure how mutual information about set membership decays over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Amandip Sangha

We relate the information exchange between two stochastic systems to the nonequilibrium entropy production in the whole system. By deriving a general formula that decomposes the total entropy production into the thermodynamic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Takahiro Sagawa , Masahito Ueda

We discuss here the use of generalized forms of entropy, taken as information measures, to characterize phase transitions and critical behavior in thermodynamic systems. Our study is based on geometric considerations pertaining to the space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-14 M. Portesi , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

In this paper a class of dynamical systems describing expectation variables exactly derived from continuous-time master equations is introduced and studied from the viewpoint of differential geometry, where such master equations consist of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Shin-Itiro Goto , Hideitsu Hino

We study a relationship between optimal transport theory and stochastic thermodynamics for the Fokker-Planck equation. We show that the lower bound on the entropy production is the action measured by the path length of the $L^2$-Wasserstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-02 Muka Nakazato , Sosuke Ito

It is known that statistical model selection as well as identification of dynamical equations from available data are both very challenging tasks. Physical systems behave according to their underlying dynamical equations which, in turn, can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sean Alan Ali , Carlo Cafaro

Information geometry provides a geometric approach to families of statistical models. The key geometric structures are the Fisher quadratic form and the Amari-Chentsov tensor. In statistics, the notion of sufficient statistic expresses the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Nihat Ay , Jürgen Jost , Hông Vân Lê , Lorenz Schwachhöfer

The Landauer's principle, a cornerstone of information thermodynamics, provides a fundamental lower bound on the energetic cost of information erasure in terms of the information content change. However, its traditional formulation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yuanyuan Xiao , Jian-Hua Jiang , Junjie Liu

Recent experiments have revealed heterogeneous dissipation in optically trapped systems, often anticorrelated with local positional fluctuations, exposing a structural gap in the scalar stochastic thermodynamic description. While the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Erez Aghion , Swetamber Das

Physical systems that power motion and create structure in a fixed amount of time dissipate energy and produce entropy. Whether living or synthetic, systems performing these dynamic functions must balance dissipation and speed. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-18 Schuyler B. Nicholson , Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos , Adolfo del Campo , Jason R. Green

We establish universal relations between pattern formation and dissipation with a geometric approach to nonequilibrium thermodynamics of deterministic reaction-diffusion systems. We first provide a way to systematically decompose the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-04 Ryuna Nagayama , Kohei Yoshimura , Artemy Kolchinsky , Sosuke Ito

The relationship between micro-structure and macro-structure of complex systems using information geometry has been dealt by several authors. From this perspective, we are going to apply it as a geometrical structure connecting both…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-17 M. E. Kahil

The statistical mechanics of Gibbs is a juxtaposition of subjective, probabilistic ideas on the one hand and objective, mechanical ideas on the other. In this paper, we follow the path set out by Jaynes, including elements added…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-24 David M. Rogers , Thomas L. Beck , Susan B. Rempe

We explore the dynamics of information systems. We show that the driving force for information dynamics is determined by both the information landscape and information flux which determines the equilibrium time reversible and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-14 Qian Zeng , Jin Wang

For sensory networks, we determine the rate with which they acquire information about the changing external conditions. Comparing this rate with the thermodynamic entropy production that quantifies the cost of maintaining the network, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-08 A. C. Barato , D Hartich , U. Seifert

The tradeoff relation between speed and cost is a central issue in designing fast and efficient information processing devices. We derive an achievable bound on thermodynamic cost for obtaining information through finite-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-16 Rihito Nagase , Takahiro Sagawa