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The entropy of network ensembles characterizes the amount of information encoded in the network structure, and can be used to quantify network complexity, and the relevance of given structural properties observed in real network datasets…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-06-18 Kartik Anand , Dimitri Krioukov , Ginestra Bianconi

The information entropies in coordinate and momentum spaces and their sum ($S_r$, $S_k$, $S$) are evaluated for many nuclei using "experimental" densities or/and momentum distributions. The results are compared with the harmonic oscillator…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. E. Massen , V. P. Psonis , A. N. Antonov

One of the fundamental steps toward understanding a complex system is identifying variation at the scale of the system's components that is most relevant to behavior on a macroscopic scale. Mutual information provides a natural means of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Kieran A. Murphy , Dani S. Bassett

The fundamental question of how information spreads in closed quantum many-body systems is often addressed through the lens of the bipartite entanglement entropy, a quantity that describes correlations in a comprehensive (nonlocal) way.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-06 Andrea Pizzi , Daniel Malz , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Johannes Knolle

Shannon Entropy is the preeminent tool for measuring the level of uncertainty (and conversely, information content) in a random variable. In the field of communications, entropy can be used to express the information content of given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Bill Kay , Audun Myers , Thad Boydston , Emily Ellwein , Cameron Mackenzie , Iliana Alvarez , Erik Lentz

The general idea of information entropy provided by C.E. Shannon "hangs over everything we do" and can be applied to a great variety of problems once the connection between a distribution and the quantities of interest is found. The Shannon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-20 Chun-Wang Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

There is a vast body of recent literature on the reliability of communication through noisy channels, the recovery of community structures in the stochastic block model, the limiting behavior of the free entropy in spin glasses and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

An exactly solvable model of nuclear fragmentation is shown to lead to a simple connection between the critical point multiplicity $\langle m \rangle_{c}$ and the critical point exponent $\tau$ recently reported on in the EOS collaboration.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 K. C. Chase , A. Z. Mekjian

Dynamical aspects of information-theoretic and entropic measures of quantum systems are studied. First, we show that for the time-dependent harmonic oscillator, as well as for the charged particle in certain time-varying electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 K. Andrzejewski

Percolation is an emblematic model to assess the robustness of interconnected systems when some of their components are corrupted. It is usually investigated in simple scenarios, such as the removal of the system's units in random order, or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-03 Oriol Artime , Manlio De Domenico

The combination of the compactness of networks, featuring small diameters, and their complex architectures results in a variety of critical effects dramatically different from those in cooperative systems on lattices. In the last few years,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. N. Dorogovtsev , A. V. Goltsev , J. F. F. Mendes

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

Dynamical and thermal characterizations of excited nuclear systems produced during the collisions between two heavy ions at intermediate incident energies are presented by means of a review of experimental and theoretical work performed in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Verde , A. Chbihi , R. Ghetti , J. Helgesson

The identification of tipping points is essential for prediction of collapses or other sudden changes in complex systems. Applications include studies of ecology, thermodynamics, climatology, and epidemiology. However, detecting early signs…

This study investigates entropy's potential for analyzing scientific research patterns across disciplines. Originating from thermodynamics, entropy now measures uncertainty and diversity in information systems. We examine Shannon Entropy,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-27 Yujie Shi , Alex Jie Yang , Sanhong Deng

In this paper, we investigate and compare two well-developed definitions of entropy relevant for describing the dynamics of isolated quantum systems: bipartite entanglement entropy and observational entropy. In a model system of interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Dana Faiez , Dominik Šafránek , J. M. Deutsch , Anthony Aguirre

The property of isoscaling in nuclear fragmentation is studied using a simple bond percolation model with ``isospin'' added as an extra degree of freedom. It is shown analytically, first, that isoscaling is expected to exist in such a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Dávila , C. Escudero , J. A. López , C. O. Dorso

Configurational information is generated when three or more sources of variance interact. The variations not only disturb each other relationally, but by selecting upon each other, they are also positioned in a configuration. A…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-10 Loet Leydesdorff

The ``Gibbs Paradox'' refers to several related questions concerning entropy in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics: whether it is an extensive quantity or not, how it changes when identical particles are mixed, and the proper way to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha

Dissipative quantum systems are frequently described within the framework of the so-called "system-plus-reservoir" approach. In this work we assign their description to the Maximum Entropy Formalism and compare the resulting thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lisan M. M. Durão , Amir O. Caldeira