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Collective behavior, both in real biological systems as well as in theoretical models, often displays a rich combination of different kinds of order. A clear-cut and unique definition of "phase" based on the standard concept of order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andrea Cavagna , Paul M. Chaikin , Dov Levine , Stefano Martiniani , Andrea Puglisi , Massimiliano Viale

Enhanced sampling methods typically require predefined collective variables (CVs) that presuppose knowledge of reaction coordinates, restricting the discovery of unanticipated transition mechanisms or intermediates. Here, we show that a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiangrui Li , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

Configurational entropy (CE) and configurational complexity (CC) are recently popularized information theoretic measures used to study the stability of solitons. This paper examines their behavior for 2D and 3D lattice Ising Models, where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-06 Damian R Sowinski , Sean Kelty , Gourab Ghoshal

We propose a new way of investigating phase transitions in the context of information theory. We use an information-entropic measure of spatial complexity known as configurational entropy (CE) to quantify both the storage and exchange of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-23 Damian Sowinski , Marcelo Gleiser

Obtaining meaningful quantitative descriptions of the statistical dependence within multivariate systems is a difficult open problem. Recently, the Partial Information Decomposition (PID) was proposed to decompose mutual information (MI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Robin A. A. Ince

Information-theoretic quantities play a crucial role in understanding non-linear relationships between random variables and are widely used across scientific disciplines. However, estimating these quantities remains an open problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Alberto Foresti , Giulio Franzese , Pietro Michiardi

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

We investigate the critical behavior of continuous phase transitions in the context of Ginzburg Landau models with a double well effective potential. In particular, we show that the recently proposed configurational entropy, a measure of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-10 Marcelo Gleiser , Damian Sowinski

Most entropy measures depend on the spread of the probability distribution over the sample space $\mathcal{X}$, and the maximum entropy achievable scales proportionately with the sample space cardinality $|\mathcal{X}|$. For a finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rohan Ghosh , Mehul Motani

In this paper, we present some results on information, complexity and entropy as defined below and we discuss their relations with the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy which is the most important invariant of a dynamical system. These results have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-17 Vieri Benci , Claudio Bonanno , Stefano Galatolo , Giulia Menconi , Federico Ponchio

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

To characterize the complex higher-order interactions among variables within a system, this study introduces a novel framework, termed System Information Decomposition (SID), aimed at decomposing the information entropy of variables into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Aobo Lyu , Bing Yuan , Ou Deng , Mingzhe Yang , Jiang Zhang

We present some new results which relate information to chaotic dynamics. In our approach the quantity of information is measured by the Algorithmic Information Content (Kolmogorov complexity) or by a sort of computable version of it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Benci , C. Bonanno , S. Galatolo , G. Menconi , M. Virgilio

Efficient and accurate learning of constitutive laws is crucial for accurately predicting the mechanical behavior of materials under complex loading conditions. Accurate model calibration hinges on a delicate interplay between the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Royal C. Ihuaenyi , Wei Li , Martin Z. Bazant , Juner Zhu

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 develop information-theoretic measures of spatial structure and pattern in more than one dimension. As is well known, the entropy density of a two-dimensional configuration can be efficiently and accurately estimated via a converging…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 David P. Feldman , James P. Crutchfield

The aim of this paper is to investigate various information-theoretic measures, including entropy, mutual information, and some systematic measures that based on mutual information, for a class of structured spiking neuronal network. In…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-04 Wenjie Li , Yao Li

We build a comprehensive methodology for the fast computation of entropy across both solid and liquid phases. The proposed method utilizes a single trajectory of molecular dynamics (MD) to facilitate the calculation of entropy, which is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Qi-Jun Hong , Zi-Kui Liu

Computable Information Density (CID), the ratio of the length of a losslessly compressed data file to that of the uncompressed file, is a measure of order and correlation in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems. Here we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-26 Stefano Martiniani , Yuval Lemberg , Paul M. Chaikin , Dov Levine

Trajectories provide dynamical information that is discarded in free energy calculations, for which we sought to design a scheme with the hope of saving cost for generating dynamical information. We first demonstrated that snapshots in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Kai Wang , Shiyang Long , Pu Tian
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