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Entropy, Volume 12, Issue 7

2010 July - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,477 Views
22 Pages

23 July 2010

We focus on quantization of the metric of a black hole restricted to the Killing horizon with universal radius r0. After imposing spherical symmetry and after restriction to the Killing horizon, the metric is quantized employing the chiral currents f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,732 Views
34 Pages

Roofs and Convexity

  • Armin Uhlmann

20 July 2010

Convex roof extensions are widely used to create entanglement measures in quantum information theory. The aim of the article is to present some tools which could be helpful for their treatment. Sections 2 and 3 introduce into the subject. It follows...

(This article belongs to the Collection Quantum Information)
  • Review
  • Open Access
94 Citations
19,250 Views
34 Pages

15 July 2010

This article highlights advantages of entropy-based genetic diversity measures, at levels from gene expression to landscapes. Shannon’s entropy-based diversity is the standard for ecological communities. The exponentials of Shannon’s and the related...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,146 Views
22 Pages

Fitting Ranked Linguistic Data with Two-Parameter Functions

  • Wentian Li,
  • Pedro Miramontes and
  • Germinal Cocho

7 July 2010

It is well known that many ranked linguistic data can fit well with one-parameter models such as Zipf’s law for ranked word frequencies. However, in cases where discrepancies from the one-parameter model occur (these will come at the two extremes of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity of Human Language and Cognition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
151 Citations
23,447 Views
10 Pages

Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life

  • Wim Hordijk,
  • Jotun Hein and
  • Mike Steel

30 June 2010

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental, but also one of the most difficult problems in science. Despite differences between various proposed scenarios, one common element seems to be the emergence of an autocatalytic set or cycle at some s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergence in Chemical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,790 Views
25 Pages

Ecological Economic Evaluation Based on Emergy as Embodied Cosmic Exergy: A Historical Study for the Beijing Urban Ecosystem 1978–2004

  • Jiang Mei Ming,
  • Chen Zhan-Ming,
  • Zhang Bo,
  • Li Shuang Cheng and ,
  • Xia Xiao Hua,
  • Zhou Shi Yi and
  • Zhou Jiang Bo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 June 2010

For ecological economic evaluation based on the unified biophysical matrix this research illustrates an updated emergy synthesis in terms of embodied cosmic exergy instead of embodied solar energy, which successes the foundation of systems ecological...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exergy: Analysis and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
15,187 Views
12 Pages

Measurement Back-Action in Quantum Point-Contact Charge Sensing

  • Bruno Küng,
  • Simon Gustavsson,
  • Theodore Choi,
  • Ivan Shorubalko and ,
  • Oliver Pfäffli,
  • Fabian Hassler,
  • Gianni Blatter,
  • Matthias Reinwald,
  • Werner Wegscheider and
  • Klaus Ensslin
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

29 June 2010

Charge sensing with quantum point-contacts (QPCs) is a technique widely used in semiconductor quantum-dot research. Understanding the physics of this measurement process, as well as finding ways of suppressing unwanted measurement back-action, are th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,547 Views
23 Pages

28 June 2010

Dynamics of many complex systems can be described by replicator equations (RE). Here we present an effective method for solving a wide class of RE based on reduction theorems for models of inhomogeneous communities. The solutions of the RE minimize t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Model Reduction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
12,168 Views
20 Pages

24 June 2010

Knowledge structures are often represented in the form of networks or maps of concepts. The coherence and connectivity of such knowledge representations is known to be closely related to knowledge production, acquisition and processing. In this study...

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