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In this chapter, a statistical measure of complexity is introduced and some of its properties are discussed. Also, some straightforward applications are shown.

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-09-09 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Hector Mancini , Xavier Calbet

In Monoidal Computer I, we introduced a categorical model of computation where the formal reasoning about computability was supported by the simple and popular diagrammatic language of string diagrams. In the present paper, we refine and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Dusko Pavlovic

This study is focused on the qualitative and quantitative characterization of chaotic systems with the use of symbolic description. We consider two famous systems: Lorenz and R\"ossler models with their iconic attractors, and demonstrate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-19 James Scully , Alexander Neiman , Andrey Shilnikov

The knowledge of transitions between regular, laminar or chaotic behavior is essential to understand the underlying mechanisms behind complex systems. While several linear approaches are often insufficient to describe such processes, there…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Marwan , N. Wessel , U. Meyerfeldt , A. Schirdewan , J. Kurths

We review possible measures of complexity which might in particular be applicable to situations where the complexity seems to arise spontaneously. We point out that not all of them correspond to the intuitive (or "naive") notion, and that…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-08-20 Peter Grassberger

The minimal memory required to model a given stochastic process - known as the statistical complexity - is a widely adopted quantifier of structure in complexity science. Here, we ask if quantum mechanics can fundamentally change the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Whei Yeap Suen , Jayne Thompson , Andrew J. P. Garner , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu

Complexity measures are essential to understand complex systems and there are numerous definitions to analyze one-dimensional data. However, extensions of these approaches to two or higher-dimensional data, such as images, are much less…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-12-27 H. V. Ribeiro , L. Zunino , E. K. Lenzi , P. A. Santoro , R. S. Mendes

Statistical mechanics relies on the complete though probabilistic description of a system in terms of all the microscopic variables. Its object is to derive therefrom static and dynamic properties involving some reduced set of variables.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Balian

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

On the basis of a model system of pillars built of unit cubes, a two-component entropic measure for the multiscale analysis of spatio-compositional inhomogeneity is proposed. It quantifies the statistical dissimilarity per cell of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryszard Piasecki

We introduce a quantum version for the statistical complexity measure, in the context of quantum information theory, and use it as a signalling function of quantum order-disorder transitions. We discuss the possibility for such transitions…

When an experimentalist measures a time series of qubits, the outcomes generate a classical stochastic process. We show that measurement induces high complexity in these processes in two specific senses: they are inherently unpredictable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ariadna E. Venegas-Li , Alexandra M. Jurgens , James P. Crutchfield

Complexity is a measure of information content. Crystalline materials are not complex systems because their structures can be represented tersely using the language of crystallography. Disordered materials are also structurally simple if…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-12 Andrew L. Goodwin

In a topological dynamical system the complexity of an orbit is a measure of the amount of information (algorithmic information content) that is necessary to describe the orbit. This indicator is invariant up to topological conjugation. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefano Galatolo

The talk presented at ICMP 97 focused on the scaling limits of critical percolation models, and some other systems whose salient features can be described by collections of random lines. In the scaling limit we keep track of features seen…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Aizenman

In this work, we develop a new complexity metric for an important class of low-rank matrix optimization problems in both symmetric and asymmetric cases, where the metric aims to quantify the complexity of the nonconvex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Haixiang Zhang , Baturalp Yalcin , Javad Lavaei , Somayeh Sojoudi

Since human randomness production has been studied and widely used to assess executive functions (especially inhibition), many measures have been suggested to assess the degree to which a sequence is random-like. However, each of them…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Nicolas Gauvrit , Hector Zenil , Jean-Paul Delahaye , Fernando Soler-Toscano

The main concern of this paper is how to define proper measures of multipartite entanglement for mixed quantum states. Since the structure of partial separability and multipartite entanglement is getting complicated if the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Szilárd Szalay

We extend previously proposed measures of complexity, emergence, and self-organization to continuous distributions using differential entropy. This allows us to calculate the complexity of phenomena for which distributions are known. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-04-01 Guillermo Santamaría-Bonfil , Nelson Fernández , Carlos Gershenson

The formalism of statistical mechanics can be generalized by starting from more general measures of information than the Shannon entropy and maximizing those subject to suitable constraints. We discuss some of the most important examples of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christian Beck