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Entropy is a famous and well established concept in physics and engineering that can be used for explanation of basic fundamentals as well it finds applications in several areas, from quantum physics to astronomy, from network communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 R. V. Ramos

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

Configurational entropy is an important factor in the free energy change of many macromolecular recognition and binding processes, and has been intensively studied. Despite great progresses that have been made, the global sampling remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Wenzhao Li , Kai Wang , Suyan Tian , Pu Tian

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 study considers advantages of the introduced measure of time based on the entropy change under irreversible processes (entropy production). Using the example of non-equilibrium expansion of an ideal gas in vacuum, such a measure is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Leonid M. Martyushev , Evgenii V. Shaiapin

The length-scale dependence of the dynamic entropy is studied in a molecular dynamics simulation of a binary Lennard-Jones liquid above the mode-coupling critical temperature $T_c$. A number of methods exist for estimating the entropy of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Allegrini , Jack F. Douglas , Sharon C. Glotzer

Entropy measures of probability distributions are widely used measures in ecology, biology, genetics, and in other fields, to quantify species diversity of a community. Unfortunately, entropy-based diversity indices, or diversity indices…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-14 Karim T. Abou-Moustafa

Mixture distributions are extensively used as a modeling tool in diverse areas from machine learning to communications engineering to physics, and obtaining bounds on the entropy of probability distributions is of fundamental importance in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 James Melbourne , Saurav Talukdar , Shreyas Bhaban , Mokshay Madiman , Murti V. Salapaka

The definition of nonequilibrium entropy is provided for the general nonequilibrium processes by connecting thermodynamics with statistical physics, and the principle of entropy increment in the nonequilibrium processes is also proved in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaochun Mei

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

Entropy is a fundamental concept in equilibrium statistical mechanics, yet its origin in the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems is not fully understood. A strong consensus is emerging around the idea that the stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-20 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

Diffusion models perform remarkably well on high-dimensional data such as images, often using only a modest number of reverse-time steps. Despite this practical success, existing convergence theory does not fully explain why such samplers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ahmad Aghapour , Erhan Bayraktar

The profile of a sample is the multiset of its symbol frequencies. We show that for samples of discrete distributions, profile entropy is a fundamental measure unifying the concepts of estimation, inference, and compression. Specifically,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Yi Hao , Alon Orlitsky

We explore the measurement problem in the entropic dynamics approach to quantum theory. The dual modes of quantum evolution---either continuous unitary evolution or abrupt wave function collapse during measurement---are unified by virtue of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 David T. Johnson , Ariel Caticha

Entropy and information can be considered dual: entropy is a measure of the subspace defined by the information constraining the given ambient space. Negative entropies, arising in na\"ive extensions of the definition of entropy from…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Daniel Lazarev

We investigate kinetic entropy-based measures of the non-Maxwellianity of distribution functions in plasmas, i.e., entropy-based measures of the departure of a local distribution function from an associated Maxwellian distribution function…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Haoming Liang , M. Hasan Barbhuiya , P. A. Cassak , O. Pezzi , S. Servidio , F. Valentini , G. P. Zank

In this paper, we investigate new procedures for statistical testing based on Tsallis entropy, a parametric generalization of Shannon entropy. Focusing on multivariate generalized Gaussian and $q$-Gaussian distributions, we develop…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-18 Mehmet Sıddık Çadırcı

Entanglement entropy appears as a central property of quantum systems in broad areas of physics. However, its precise value is often sensitive to unknown microphysics, rendering it incalculable. By considering parametric dependence on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Mark P. Hertzberg , Frank Wilczek

It is by now well known that the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) entropy $S_{BG}=-k\sum_{i=1}^W p_i \ln p_i$ can be usefully generalized into the entropy $S_q=k (1-\sum_{i=1}^Wp_i^{q}) / (q-1)$ ($q\in \mathcal{R}; S_1=S_{BG}$). Microscopic dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giorgos-Artemios Tsekouras , Constantino Tsallis

We address the generalized uncertainty principle in scenarios of successive measurements. Uncertainties are characterized by means of generalized entropies of both the R\'{e}nyi and Tsallis types. Here, specific features of measurements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Alexey E. Rastegin