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We consider free fermion systems in arbitrary dimensions and represent the occupation pattern of each eigenstate as a classical binary string. We find that the Kolmogorov complexity of the string correctly captures the scaling behavior of…

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During a spontaneous change, a macroscopic physical system will evolve towards a macro-state with more realizations. This observation is at the basis of the Statistical Mechanical version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and it provides…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mengjie Zu , Arunkumar Bupathy , Daan Frenkel , Srikanth Sastry

Computer science theory provides many different measures of complexity of a system including Kolmogorov complexity, logical depth, computational depth, and Levin complexity. However, these measures are all defined only for deterministic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-05 David Wolpert , Jordan Scharnhorst

Complex high-dimensional co-occurrence data are increasingly popular from a complex system of interacting physical, biological and social processes in discretely indexed modifiable areal units or continuously indexed locations of a study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-19 Jian-Yong Wang , Han Yu

Adaptive dynamical systems arise in a multitude of contexts, e.g., optimization, control, communications, signal processing, and machine learning. A precise characterization of their fundamental limitations is therefore of paramount…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-13 Maxim Raginsky

We present a quantitative analysis of the Boltzmann-Grad (low-density) limit of a hard sphere system. We introduce and study a set of functions (correlation errors) measuring the deviations in time from the statistical independence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Mario Pulvirenti , Sergio Simonella

The Boltzmann Machine (BM) is a neural network composed of stochastically firing neurons that can learn complex probability distributions by adapting the synaptic interactions between the neurons. BMs represent a very generic class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Brian Kiraly , Elze J. Knol , Hilbert J. Kappen , Alexander A. Khajetoorians

While Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content in an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the information distance between two individual objects, for example, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Charles H. Bennett , Peter Gacs , Ming Li , Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Wojciech H. Zurek

We show that objective Martin-Lof randomness and Kolmogorov complexity of instantaneous detailed data lists for $N$ helium gas atoms on $M$ possible energies is necessary and sufficient to directly write down its Helmholtz free energy and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 David Sherwell

We study the problem of optimal estimation and control of linear systems using quantized measurements, with a focus on applications over sensor networks. We show that the state conditioned on a causal quantization of the measurements can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Ravi Teja Sukhavasi , Babak Hassibi

A quantum mechanical generalization of superstatistics is presented here based on the positive operator valued measure transformation property of the system density matrix. This procedure reveals that the origin of the fluctuating factors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Rajagopal

Inferring the causal structure that links n observables is usually based upon detecting statistical dependences and choosing simple graphs that make the joint measure Markovian. Here we argue why causal inference is also possible when only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Dominik Janzing , Bernhard Schoelkopf

Computational models in chemistry rely on a number of approximations. The effect of such approximations on observables derived from them is often unpredictable. Therefore, it is challenging to quantify the uncertainty of a computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Gregor N. Simm , Jonny Proppe , Markus Reiher

Algorithmic statistics has two different (and almost orthogonal) motivations. From the philosophical point of view, it tries to formalize how the statistics works and why some statistical models are better than others. After this notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Nikolai Vereshchagin , Alexander Shen

Complexity is a multi-faceted phenomenon, involving a variety of features including disorder, nonlinearity, and self-organisation. We use a recently developed rigorous framework for complexity to understand measures of complexity. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-22 Karoline Wiesner , James Ladyman

We demonstrate that Shannon's information entropy and the thermodynamic entropy of Boltzmann and Gibbs are quantitatively equivalent for real condensed-matter systems. By interpreting atomic configurations as information sources, we compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Dallin Fisher , Qi-Jun Hong

We argue that the complex numbers are an irreducible object of quantum probability. This can be seen in the measurements of geometric phases that have no classical probabilistic analogue. Having complex phases as primitive ingredient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Charis Anastopoulos

Large-scale electrophysiological recordings now allow simultaneous monitoring of thousands of neurons across multiple brain regions, revealing structured variability in neural population activity. Understanding how these collective patterns…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-12 Nicolas Béreux , Giovanni Catania , Aurélien Decelle , Francesca Mignacco , Alfonso de Jesús Navas Gómez , Beatriz Seoane

The fast changing reality in technical and natural domains perceived by always more accurate observations has drawn attention on new and very broad class of systems with specific behaviour represented under the common wording complexity.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-06-06 Michel Cotsaftis

We investigate the overdamped stochastic dynamics of a particle in an asymptotically flat external potential field, in contact with a thermal bath. For an infinite system size, the particles may escape the force field and diffuse freely at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Erez Aghion , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai