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In these decades, it has been revealed that there is rich information-theoretic structure in thermodynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems in both the classical and quantum regimes. This has led to the fruitful interplay among statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Takahiro Sagawa

A general investigation is made into the intrinsic Riemannian geometry for complex systems, from the perspective of statistical mechanics. The entropic formulation of statistical mechanics is the ingredient which enables a connection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-18 B. N. Tiwari , Vinod Chandra , Subhashish Banerjee

We construct and analyze a thermodynamic extension of the recently proposed information geometric regularization of Cao and Sch\"afer. The construction extends their shock-mitigating Hessian metric geometry using the Shannon entropy to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Seth Taylor , Raymond J. Spiteri , Stéphane Gaudreault

Recent understanding of the thermodynamics of small-scale systems have enabled the characterization of the thermodynamic requirements of implementing quantum processes for fixed input states. Here, we extend these results to construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Philippe Faist , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

The Shannon based conditional entropy that underlies five-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert gravity coupled to a dilaton field is investigated in the context of dynamical holographic AdS/QCD models. Considering the UV and IR dominance limits of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-22 Alex E. Bernardini , Roldao da Rocha

For classical discrete system under constant composition, typically reffered to as substitutional alloys, canonical average acts as nonlinear map F from a set of potential energy surface U to that of microscopic configuration in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 Koretaka Yuge

In this work, we design an entropy stable, finite volume approximation for the shallow water magnetohydrodynamics (SWMHD) equations. The method is novel as we design an affordable analytical expression of the numerical interface flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner

Information based thermodynamic logic is revisited. It consists of two parts: Part A applies the modern theory of probability in which an arbitrary convex function \phi is employed as an analytic "device" to express information as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Bing Miao , Hong Qian , Yong-Shi Wu

The problem of the insensitivity of the macroscopic behavior of any thermodynamical system to partitioning generates a bias between the reproducibility of its macroscopic behavior viewed as the simplest form of causality and its long-term…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria K. Koleva

The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

To understand under which conditions thermodynamics emerges from the microscopic dynamics is the ultimate goal of statistical mechanics. Despite the fact that the theory is more than 100 years old, we are still discussing its foundations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Fabio Anza , Vlatko Vedral

The application of the Shannon entropy to study the relationship between information and structures has yielded insights into molecular and material systems. However, the difficulty in directly observing and manipulating atoms and molecules…

Fisher information, Shannon information entropy and Statistical Complexity are calculated for the interface of a normal metal and a superconductor, as a function of the temperature for several materials. The order parameter $\Psi({\bf r})$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Ch. C. Moustakidis , C. P. Panos

This work presents a general unifying theoretical framework for quantum non-equilibrium systems. It is based on a re-statement of the dynamical problem as one of inferring the distribution of collision events that move a system toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-30 David M. Rogers

The problem of formulating a thermodynamically-consistent finite internal partition function (IPF) in nonideal hydrogen plasma systems is investigated and analyzed within the chemical picture revealing inaccuracies and inconsistencies…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 Mofreh R. Zaghloul

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

The statistical properties of physical systems in thermal equilibrium are blatantly different from their far-from-equilibrium counterparts. In the latter, fluctuations often dominate the dynamics and might cluster in ordered patterns in the…

We introduce a framework designed to analyze the thermodynamics of an abstractly defined logical computer like a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) or a Turing machine, without specifying any extraneous parameters (like rate matrices,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-29 Gülce Kardeş , David Wolpert

The concept of entropy, firstly introduced in information theory, rapidly became popular in many applied sciences via Shannon's formula to measure the degree of heterogeneity among observations. A rather recent research field aims at…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-20 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

A set of core features is set forth as the essence of a thermodynamic description, which derive from large-deviation properties in systems with hierarchies of timescales, but which are \emph{not} dependent upon conservation laws or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Eric Smith