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We study a connection between chemical thermodynamics and information geometry. We clarify a relation between the Gibbs free energy of an ideal dilute solution and an information-geometric quantity called an $f$-divergence. From this…

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Information geometry provides differential geometric concepts like a Riemannian metric, connections and covariant derivatives on spaces of probability distributions. We discuss here how these concepts apply to quantum field theories in the…

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Thermodynamics provides a unified perspective of thermodynamic properties of various substances. To formulate thermodynamics in the language of sophisticated mathematics, thermodynamics is described by a variety of differential geometries,…

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We introduce a new information-geometric structure associated with the dynamics on discrete objects such as graphs and hypergraphs. The presented setup consists of two dually flat structures built on the vertex and edge spaces,…

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Information geometry is based on classical Legendre duality but allows to incorporate additional structure such as algebraic constraints and Bregman divergence functions. It is naturally suited, and has been successfully used, to describe…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-26 Dimitri Loutchko , Yuki Sughiyama , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

The formal structure of geometrical thermodynamics is reviewed with particular emphasis on the geometry of equilibria submanifolds. On these submanifolds thermodynamic metrics are defined as the Hessian of thermodynamic potentials. Links…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuel Santoro , Albert S. Benight

Recent advancements have revealed new links between information geometry and classical stochastic thermodynamics, particularly through the Fisher information (FI) with respect to time. Recognizing the non-uniqueness of the quantum Fisher…

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Contrast functions play a fundamental role in information geometry, providing a means for generating the geometric structures of a statistical manifold: a pseudo-Riemannian metric and a pair of torsion-free conjugate affine connections.…

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Exploration of structure-property relationships as a function of dopant concentration is commonly based on mean field theories for solid solutions. However, such theories that work well for semiconductors tend to fail in materials with…

The theory of chemical kinetics form the basis to describe the dynamics of chemical systems. Owing to physical and thermodynamic constraints, chemical reaction systems possess various structures, which can be utilized to characterize…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tetsuya J. Kobayashi , Dimitri Loutchko , Atsushi Kamimura , Yuki Sughiyama

A nonequilibrium system is characterized by a set of thermodynamic forces and fluxes which give rise to entropy production (EP). We show that these forces and fluxes have an information-geometric structure, which allows us to decompose EP…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-16 Artemy Kolchinsky , Andreas Dechant , Kohei Yoshimura , Sosuke Ito

In recent years, the unified theory of information and thermodynamics has been intensively discussed in the context of stochastic thermodynamics. The unified theory reveals that information theory would be useful to understand…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-23 Sosuke Ito

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

A generalized entropy arising in the context of superstatistics is obtained for an ideal gas. The curvature scalar associated to the thermodynamic space generated by this modified entropy is calculated using two formalisms of the geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-18 J. L. López , O. Obregón , J. Torres-Arenas

We present a validation of the asdf method, an information-theoretic framework for computing thermodynamic entropy from molecular configurations. The method reformulates entropy estimation as the Shannon entropy of a residual mapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Dallin Fisher , Qi-Jun Hong

Information thermodynamics relates the rate of change of mutual information between two interacting subsystems to their thermodynamics when the joined system is described by a bipartite stochastic dynamics satisfying local detailed balance.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-05 Emanuele Penocchio , Francesco Avanzini , Massimiliano Esposito

We consider a system with a discrete configuration space. We show that the geometrical structures associated with such a system provide the tools necessary for a reconstruction of discrete quantum mechanics once dynamics is brought into the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Marcel Reginatto , Michael J. W. Hall

We show a relationship between the entropy production in stochastic thermodynamics and the stochastic interaction in the information integrated theory. To clarify this relationship, we newly introduce an information geometric interpretation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 Sosuke Ito , Masafumi Oizumi , Shun-ichi Amari

The Fisher-Rao metric from Information Geometry is related to phase transition phenomena in classical statistical mechanics. Several studies propose to extend the use of Information Geometry to study more general phase transitions in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Omri Har Shemesh , Rick Quax , Alfons G. Hoekstra , Peter M. A. Sloot

When flat or on a firm mechanical substrate, the atomic composition and atomistic structure of two-dimensional crystals dictate their chemical, electronic, optical, and mechanical properties. These properties change when the two-dimensional…

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