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Entropy, Volume 20, Issue 4

April 2018 - 96 articles

Cover Story: What are the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics? Mathematicians have explored this question through abstract axiomatic systems, while contemporary physicists (inspired by Maxwell's demon) have come to regard information as the key basis for the theory. Each approach offers insights. To embrace both, we need axioms that incorporate ideas of information from the outset, describing how physical agents represent and manipulate the state of their surroundings—and themselves. View the paper here.
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Articles (96)

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,542 Views
20 Pages

23 April 2018

Deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), which are at the heart of many new emerging applications, achieve remarkable performance in audio and visual recognition tasks. Unfortunately, achieving accuracy often implies significant computational c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,467 Views
17 Pages

23 April 2018

High fidelity gene transcription and replication require kinetic discrimination of nucleotide substrate species by RNA and DNA polymerases under chemical non-equilibrium conditions. It is known that sufficiently large free energy driving force is nee...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
109 Citations
11,659 Views
10 Pages

23 April 2018

The formulation of the Partial Information Decomposition (PID) framework by Williams and Beer in 2010 attracted a significant amount of attention to the problem of defining redundant (or shared), unique and synergistic (or complementary) components o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,358 Views
9 Pages

21 April 2018

Cell signal transduction is a non-equilibrium process characterized by the reaction cascade. This study aims to quantify and compare signal transduction cascades using a model of signal transduction. The signal duration was found to be linked to step...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,175 Views
26 Pages

21 April 2018

For the first time, the power law characteristics of stock price jump intervals have been empirically found generally in stock markets. The classical jump-diffusion model is described as the jump-diffusion model with power law (JDMPL). An artificial...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,800 Views
20 Pages

20 April 2018

After summarizing the present status of Rational Extended Thermodynamics (RET) of gases, which is an endeavor to generalize the Navier–Stokes and Fourier (NSF) theory of viscous heat-conducting fluids, we develop the molecular RET theory of rar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,102 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2018

This article investigates the traffic offloading problem in the heterogeneous network. The location of small cells is considered as an important factor in two aspects: the amount of resources they share for offloaded macrocell users and the performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,263 Views
10 Pages

20 April 2018

We perform a detailed numerical study of the localization properties of the eigenfunctions of one-dimensional (1D) tight-binding wires with on-site disorder characterized by long-tailed distributions: For large ϵ , P ( ϵ ) ∼ 1 / ϵ 1 +...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,397 Views
19 Pages

19 April 2018

Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics are fundamental concepts that underlie all natural processes and patterns. Recent research has shown how the entropy of a landscape mosaic can be calculated using the Boltzmann equation, with the entropy o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,308 Views
12 Pages

Quantum Nonlocality and Quantum Correlations in the Stern–Gerlach Experiment

  • Alma Elena Piceno Martínez,
  • Ernesto Benítez Rodríguez,
  • Julio Abraham Mendoza Fierro,
  • Marcela Maribel Méndez Otero and
  • Luis Manuel Arévalo Aguilar

19 April 2018

The Stern–Gerlach experiment (SGE) is one of the foundational experiments in quantum physics. It has been used in both the teaching and the development of quantum mechanics. However, for various reasons, some of its quantum features and implica...

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