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The entanglement entropy approach to study the dependence of entropy upon the location of degrees of freedom (dof) (near/far) from the horizon is discussed in this article. We try to understand the physical deviation of the area law for the…

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I present a viewpoint on black hole thermodynamics according to which the entropy: derives from horizon "degrees of freedom"; is finite because the deep structure of spacetime is discrete; is "objective" thanks to the distinguished coarse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-20 Rafael D. Sorkin

Here we deconstruct, and then in a reasoned way reconstruct, the concept of "entropy of a system," paying particular attention to where the randomness may be coming from. We start with the core concept of entropy as a COUNT associated with…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Tommaso Toffoli

The microscopic explanation of entropy has been challenged from both experimental and theoretical point of view. The expression of entropy is derived from the first law of thermodynamics indicating that entropy or the second law of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jozsef Garai

The concept of entropy in nonequilibrium macroscopic systems is investigated in the light of an extended equation of motion for the density matrix obtained in a previous study. It is found that a time-dependent information entropy can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Grandy

Dependence among marginally constrained observations can break a finite-sample barrier. To formalize this phenomenon, we introduce the \emph{minimum list entropy coupling} $H(P\|Q_1,\dots,Q_m)$, the minimum conditional entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shahab Asoodeh , Jun Chen

The time variation of entropy, as an alternative to the variance, is proposed as a measure of the diffusion rate. It is shown that for linear and time-translationally invariant systems having a large-time limit for the density, at large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-24 Amir Aghamohammadi , Amir H. Fatollahi , Mohammad Khorrami , Ahmad Shariati

Characterization of complexity within the sociological interpretation has resulted in a large number of notions, which are relevant in different situations. From the statistical mechanics point of view, these notions resemble entropy. In a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-12 Marcos E. Gaudiano , Jorge A. Revelli

Assuming that the dominant contribution, to the entropy due to entanglement across a spherical hypersurface, comes from the near horizon degrees of freedom, we analytically derive the entropy of a free massless scalar field in Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-19 Suman Ghosh

Observational entropy -- a quantity that unifies Boltzmann's entropy, Gibbs' entropy, von Neumann's macroscopic entropy, and the diagonal entropy -- has recently been argued to play a key role in a modern formulation of statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Teruaki Nagasawa , Kohtaro Kato , Eyuri Wakakuwa , Francesco Buscemi

After a discussion on several limiting cases where General Relativity turns into less sophisticated theories, we find that in the correct thermodynamical and cosmological weak field limit of Einstein's field equations the entropy of the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Marcelo Samuel Berman

The second law of nonequilibrium thermodynamics within the open system paradigm (a small system coupled to one or multiple baths) is derived. This is done by showing positivity of entropy production for arbitrary Hamiltonian dynamics for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-28 Philipp Strasberg

Testable conditional probabilities appear to be restricted to single hypersurfaces (marvelous moments) and depend only on stationary observables. Observable evolution, such as a change of entropy, should be expressed as a dependence upon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Don N. Page

For a massive spin 1/2 field, we present the reduced spin and helicity density matrix, respectively, for the same pure one particle state. Their relation has also been developed. Furthermore, we calculate and compare the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Song He , Shuxin Shao , Hongbao Zhang

The concept of entropy connects the number of possible configurations with the number of variables in large stochastic systems. Independent or weakly interacting variables render the number of configurations scale exponentially with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-25 Sámuel G. Balogh , Gergely Palla , Péter Pollner , Dániel Czégel

The object of observation in present paper is statistical independence of real sequences and its description as independence with re spect to certain class of densities.

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Milan Pasteka

Entropy can signify different things: For instance, heat transfer in thermodynamics or a measure of information in data analysis. Many entropies have been introduced and it can be difficult to ascertain their different importance and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , Piergiulio Tempesta

The entropy power inequality for independent random vectors is a foundational result of information theory, with deep connections to probability and geometric functional analysis. Several extensions of the entropy power inequality have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

We show how the dependence of phase space volume $\Omega(N)$ of a classical system on its size $N$ uniquely determines its extensive entropy. We give a concise criterion when this entropy is not of Boltzmann-Gibbs type but has to assume a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rudolf Hanel , Stefan Thurner

We employ the relative entropy as a measure to quantify the difference of eigenmodes between Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems in elliptic optical microcavities. We have found that the average value of the relative entropy in the range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Kabgyun Jeong , Kyu-Won Park , Jaewan Kim