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Entropy, Volume 25, Issue 11

2023 November - 90 articles

Cover Story: The dynamics and equilibrium properties of classical particle systems are determined by the forces between particles. For forces mediated by an interaction potential (in this case a Lennard-Jones potential), we construct a dynamic network from the system. Particles are represented as nodes and binary undirected links define a two-level approximation of the potential, one value within an interaction range where links are active and one outside where they are not. In thermodynamic equilibrium, this approximation connects the physical properties of the particle system to the topological properties of the network representation through the partition function of the approximated potential and allows for further characterisation of the system. View this paper
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Articles (90)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,831 Views
26 Pages

20 November 2023

We start with a methodological analysis of the notion of scientific theory and its interrelation with reality. This analysis is based on the works of Helmholtz, Hertz, Boltzmann, and Schrödinger (and reviews of D’Agostino). Following Helmh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Probability: From Foundations to Engineering II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,792 Views
37 Pages

Percolation Theories for Quantum Networks

  • Xiangyi Meng,
  • Xinqi Hu,
  • Yu Tian,
  • Gaogao Dong and ,
  • Renaud Lambiotte,
  • Jianxi Gao and
  • Shlomo Havlin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 November 2023

Quantum networks have experienced rapid advancements in both theoretical and experimental domains over the last decade, making it increasingly important to understand their large-scale features from the viewpoint of statistical physics. This review p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Classical and Quantum Networks: Theory, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,064 Views
12 Pages

20 November 2023

The diffusion coefficient of heavy quarks in a deconfined medium is examined in this research using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that is trained with data from relativistic heavy ion collisions involving heavy flavor hadrons. The CNN is...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,913 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2023

Heart rate variability (HRV) is used as an index reflecting the adaptability of the autonomic nervous system to external stimuli and can be used to detect various heart diseases. Since HRVs are the time series signal with nonlinear property, entropy...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,633 Views
9 Pages

Non-Linear Measures of Postural Control in Response to Painful and Non-Painful Visual Stimuli

  • Alexandre Vonesch,
  • Cassandre Duhot,
  • Thierry Lelard,
  • Guillaume Léonard and ,
  • Michalina Błażkiewicz and
  • Harold Mouras
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 November 2023

Over the past decade, researchers have focused on studying the functional context of perceiving painful stimuli, particularly concerning the posturographic correlates of emotional processing. The aim of this study was to investigate the differential...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,704 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2023

Based on authorized patents of China’s artificial intelligence industry from 2013 to 2022, this paper constructs an Industry–University–Research institution (IUR) collaboration network and an Inter-Firm (IF) collaboration network an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,929 Views
11 Pages

18 November 2023

In this article, we address the reliance on probability density functions to obtain macroscopic properties in systems with multiple degrees of freedom as plasmas, and the limitations of expensive techniques for solving Equations such as Vlasov’...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 180th Anniversary of Ludwig Boltzmann)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,395 Views
21 Pages

18 November 2023

Network attack and defence games are gradually becoming a new approach through which to study the protection of infrastructure networks such as power grids and transportation networks. Uncertainty factors, such as the subjective decision preferences...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,243 Views
9 Pages

17 November 2023

We have recently shown that the critical Anderson electron in D=3 dimensions effectively occupies a spatial region of the infrared (IR) scaling dimension dIR≈8/3. Here, we inquire about the dimensional substructure involved. We partition space...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,494 Views
18 Pages

Security of the Decoy-State BB84 Protocol with Imperfect State Preparation

  • Aleksei Reutov,
  • Andrey Tayduganov,
  • Vladimir Mayboroda and
  • Oleg Fat’yanov

17 November 2023

The quantum key distribution (QKD) allows two remote users to share a common information-theoretic secure secret key. In order to guarantee the security of a practical QKD implementation, the physical system has to be fully characterized and all devi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information: From Fundamental Aspects to Practical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,185 Views
18 Pages

Causal Factor Disentanglement for Few-Shot Domain Adaptation in Video Prediction

  • Nathan Cornille,
  • Katrien Laenen,
  • Jingyuan Sun and
  • Marie-Francine Moens

17 November 2023

An important challenge in machine learning is performing with accuracy when few training samples are available from the target distribution. If a large number of training samples from a related distribution are available, transfer learning can be use...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Causality and Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,579 Views
11 Pages

Connectivity of Random Geometric Hypergraphs

  • Henry-Louis de Kergorlay and
  • Desmond J. Higham

17 November 2023

We consider a random geometric hypergraph model based on an underlying bipartite graph. Nodes and hyperedges are sampled uniformly in a domain, and a node is assigned to those hyperedges that lie within a certain radius. From a modelling perspective,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models, Topology and Inference of Multilayer and Higher-Order Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,842 Views
11 Pages

17 November 2023

The innovation of private enterprises plays a crucial role. This study focuses on the impacts of market information asymmetry, the technology spillover effect, and the order of innovation research and development (R&D) decisions on the evolution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,389 Views
12 Pages

Efficient Quantum Private Comparison without Sharing a Key

  • Jian Li,
  • Fanting Che,
  • Zhuo Wang and
  • Anqi Fu

17 November 2023

Quantum private comparison (QPC) allows at least two users to compare the equality of their secret information, for which the security is based on the properties of quantum mechanics. To improve the use of quantum resources and the efficiency of priv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum and Classical Physical Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,040 Views
14 Pages

FLPP: A Federated-Learning-Based Scheme for Privacy Protection in Mobile Edge Computing

  • Zhimo Cheng,
  • Xinsheng Ji,
  • Wei You,
  • Yi Bai and ,
  • Yunjie Chen and
  • Xiaogang Qin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 November 2023

Data sharing and analyzing among different devices in mobile edge computing is valuable for social innovation and development. The limitation to the achievement of this goal is the data privacy risk. Therefore, existing studies mainly focus on enhanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,565 Views
31 Pages

16 November 2023

Fault diagnosis of rotating machinery plays an important role in modern industrial machines. In this paper, a modified sparse Bayesian classification model (i.e., Standard_SBC) is utilized to construct the fault diagnosis system of rotating machinery...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of Information Theory in Fault Detection and Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,719 Views
15 Pages

Advancing Federated Learning through Verifiable Computations and Homomorphic Encryption

  • Bingxue Zhang,
  • Guangguang Lu,
  • Pengpeng Qiu,
  • Xumin Gui and
  • Yang Shi

16 November 2023

Federated learning, as one of the three main technical routes for privacy computing, has been widely studied and applied in both academia and industry. However, malicious nodes may tamper with the algorithm execution process or submit false learning...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,871 Views
7 Pages

Experimental Demonstration of Secure Relay in Quantum Secure Direct Communication Network

  • Min Wang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Jianxing Guo,
  • Xiaotian Song and
  • Guilu Long

16 November 2023

Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) offers a practical way to realize a quantum network which can transmit information securely and reliably. Practical quantum networks are hindered by the unavailability of quantum relays. To overcome this lim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Quantum Communication and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,868 Views
18 Pages

Anti-Jamming Communication Using Imitation Learning

  • Zhanyang Zhou,
  • Yingtao Niu,
  • Boyu Wan and
  • Wenhao Zhou

16 November 2023

The communication reliability of wireless communication systems is threatened by malicious jammers. Aiming at the problem of reliable communication under malicious jamming, a large number of schemes have been proposed to mitigate the effects of malic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Emerging Wireless Communication Systems and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,135 Views
17 Pages

Denoising Non-Stationary Signals via Dynamic Multivariate Complex Wavelet Thresholding

  • Kim C. Raath,
  • Katherine B. Ensor,
  • Alena Crivello and
  • David W. Scott

16 November 2023

Over the past few years, we have seen an increased need to analyze the dynamically changing behaviors of economic and financial time series. These needs have led to significant demand for methods that denoise non-stationary time series across time an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robust Methods in Complex Scenarios and Data Visualization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,211 Views
18 Pages

Complexity Reduction in Analyzing Independence between Statistical Randomness Tests Using Mutual Information

  • Jorge Augusto Karell-Albo,
  • Carlos Miguel Legón-Pérez,
  • Raisa Socorro-Llanes,
  • Omar Rojas and
  • Guillermo Sosa-Gómez

15 November 2023

The advantages of using mutual information to evaluate the correlation between randomness tests have recently been demonstrated. However, it has been pointed out that the high complexity of this method limits its application in batteries with a great...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,787 Views
21 Pages

15 November 2023

Neurostimulation can be used to modulate brain dynamics of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders to make abnormal neural oscillations restore to normal. The control schemes proposed on the bases of neural computational models can predict the mecha...

(This article belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,174 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2023

In this paper, we study operator reconstruction in a class of holographic tensor networks describing renormalization group flows studied in arXiv:2210.12127. We study examples of 2D bulk holographic tensor networks constructed from Dijkgraaf–Wi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,171 Views
25 Pages

15 November 2023

Driven by the variety of available measures intended to estimate predictability of diverse objects such as time series and network links, this paper presents a comprehensive overview of the existing literature in this domain. Our overview delves into...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,476 Views
22 Pages

14 November 2023

In theoretical physics and theoretical neuroscience, increased intelligence is associated with increased entropy, which entails potential access to an increased number of states that could facilitate adaptive behavior. Potential to access a larger nu...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,649 Views
11 Pages

14 November 2023

Thomson heat absorption corresponding to changes in the Seebeck coefficient with respect to temperature enables the design of thermoelectric coolers wherein Thomson cooling is the dominant term, i.e., the Thomson coolers. Thomson coolers extend the w...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,518 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2023

Currently, the research on the predictions of remaining useful life (RUL) of rotating machinery mainly focuses on the process of health indicator (HI) construction and the determination of the first prediction time (FPT). In complex industrial enviro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Applications: From Signal Processing to Machine Learning and Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,012 Views
36 Pages

11 November 2023

The aim of this study is to explore the insights of the information-theoretic definition of similarity for a multitude of flow systems with wave propagation. This provides dimensionless groups of the form Πinfo=U/c, where U is a characteristic flo...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,663 Views
16 Pages

Robustness and Complexity of Directed and Weighted Metabolic Hypergraphs

  • Pietro Traversa,
  • Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda,
  • Alexei Vazquez and
  • Yamir Moreno

11 November 2023

Metabolic networks are probably among the most challenging and important biological networks. Their study provides insight into how biological pathways work and how robust a specific organism is against an environment or therapy. Here, we propose a d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models, Topology and Inference of Multilayer and Higher-Order Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,099 Views
19 Pages

11 November 2023

This paper focuses on the formation control of multi-robot systems with leader–follower network structure in directed topology to guide a system composed of multiple mobile robot agents to achieve global path navigation with a desired formation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamical Behaviors in Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,472 Views
28 Pages

Exploring the Entropy Complex Networks with Latent Interaction

  • Alex Arturo Centeno Mejia and
  • Moisés Felipe Bravo Gaete

11 November 2023

In the present work, we study the introduction of a latent interaction index, examining its impact on the formation and development of complex networks. This index takes into account both observed and unobserved heterogeneity per node in order to ove...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,762 Views
14 Pages

10 November 2023

This paper is about Dirichlet averages in the matrix-variate case or averages of functions over the Dirichlet measure in the complex domain. The classical power mean contains the harmonic mean, arithmetic mean and geometric mean (Hardy, Littlewood an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonadditive Entropies and Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics—Dedicated to Professor Constantino Tsallis on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,238 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2023

In the rapidly evolving information era, the dissemination of information has become swifter and more extensive. Fake news, in particular, spreads more rapidly and is produced at a lower cost compared to genuine news. While researchers have developed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Information Theory to Physical Modeling and State Awareness in Complex Systems)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,763 Views
8 Pages

10 November 2023

Thermodynamics contains rich symmetries. These symmetries are usually considered independent of the structure of matter or the thermodynamic state where matter is located and, thus, highly universal. As Callen stated, the connection between the symme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermodynamics of Matter in Wide Range of Entropies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,874 Views
32 Pages

Exergoeconomic Analysis of a Mechanical Compression Refrigeration Unit Run by an ORC

  • Daniel Taban,
  • Valentin Apostol,
  • Lavinia Grosu,
  • Mugur C. Balan and ,
  • Horatiu Pop,
  • Catalina Dobre and
  • Alexandru Dobrovicescu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 November 2023

To improve the efficiency of a diesel internal combustion engine (ICE), the waste heat carried out by the combustion gases can be recovered with an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) that further drives a vapor compression refrigeration cycle (VCRC). This w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermodynamic Optimization of Industrial Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,937 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2023

Multi-h continuous phase modulation (CPM), with extremely high spectral efficiency, involves the plague of high demodulation complexity with a large number of matched filters and a complex trellis. In this paper, an efficient all-digital demodulator...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Coding for Wireless Communications II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,746 Views
14 Pages

Random Walks on Comb-like Structures under Stochastic Resetting

  • Axel Masó-Puigdellosas,
  • Trifce Sandev and
  • Vicenç Méndez

9 November 2023

We study the long-time dynamics of the mean squared displacement of a random walker moving on a comb structure under the effect of stochastic resetting. We consider that the walker’s motion along the backbone is diffusive and it performs short jumps...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Random Walks and Stochastic Processes in Complex Systems: From Physics to Socio-Economic Phenomena)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,159 Views
30 Pages

Work Fluctuations in Ergotropic Heat Engines

  • Giovanni Chesi,
  • Chiara Macchiavello and
  • Massimiliano Federico Sacchi

9 November 2023

We study the work fluctuations in ergotropic heat engines, namely two-stroke quantum Otto engines where the work stroke is designed to extract the ergotropy (the maximum amount of work by a cyclic unitary evolution) from a couple of quantum systems a...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,997 Views
18 Pages

9 November 2023

Entropy serves as a measure of chaos in systems by representing the average rate of information loss about a phase point’s position on the attractor. When dealing with a multifractal system, a single exponent cannot fully describe its dynamics,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theoretic Criteria: New Theoretical Developments and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,316 Views
24 Pages

8 November 2023

Ecosystem modeling is a complex and multidisciplinary modeling problem which emerged in the 1950s. It takes advantage of the computational turn in sciences to better understand anthropogenic impacts and improve ecosystem management. For that purpose,...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,808 Views
27 Pages

7 November 2023

We obtain covariance and Choquet integral representations for some entropies and give upper bounds of those entropies. The coherent properties of those entropies are discussed. Furthermore, we propose tail-based cumulative residual Tsallis entropy of...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,683 Views
15 Pages

7 November 2023

Quantum obfuscation is one of the important primitives in quantum cryptography that can be used to enhance the security of various quantum cryptographic schemes. The research on quantum obfuscation focuses mainly on the obfuscatability of quantum fun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum and Classical Physical Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,194 Views
11 Pages

7 November 2023

Originating from the Hamiltonian of a single qubit system, the phenomenon of the avoided level crossing is ubiquitous in multiple branches of physics, including the Landau–Zener transition in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, the band str...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Dynamics with Non-hermitian Hamiltonians II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,743 Views
33 Pages

6 November 2023

We consider the problem of transmitting a Gaussian source with minimum mean square error distortion over an infinite-bandwidth additive white Gaussian noise channel with an unknown noise level and under an input energy constraint. We construct a univ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Information and Coding Theory II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,879 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2023

This study proposes Stamp-MLP, an enhanced seal impression representation learning technique based on MLP-Mixer. Instead of using the patch linear mapping preprocessing method, this technique uses circular seal remapping, which reserves the seals&rsq...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,323 Views
12 Pages

Docosahexaenoic Acid Explains the Unexplained in Visual Transduction

  • Michael A. Crawford,
  • Andrew J. Sinclair,
  • Yiqun Wang,
  • Walter F. Schmidt and ,
  • C. Leigh Broadhurst,
  • Simon C. Dyall,
  • Larry Horn,
  • J. Thomas Brenna and
  • Mark R. Johnson
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 November 2023

In George Wald’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech for “discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye”, he noted that events after the activation of rhodopsin are too slow to explain visual re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Processes in Living Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,123 Views
10 Pages

6 November 2023

The present work is motivated by the need for robust, large-scale coherent states that can play possible roles as quantum resources. A challenge is that large, complex systems tend to be fragile. However, emergent phenomena in classical systems tend...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Probability: From Foundations to Engineering II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,840 Views
15 Pages

6 November 2023

True randomness is necessary for the security of any cryptographic protocol, including quantum key distribution (QKD). In QKD transceivers, randomness is supplied by one or more local, private entropy sources of quantum origin which can be either pas...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,717 Views
13 Pages

A Link Prediction Algorithm Based on Weighted Local and Global Closeness

  • Jian Wang,
  • Jun Ning,
  • Lingcong Nie,
  • Qian Liu and
  • Na Zhao

6 November 2023

Link prediction aims to identify unknown or missing connections in a network. The methods based on network structure similarity, known for their simplicity and effectiveness, have garnered widespread attention. A core metric in these methods is &ldqu...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,535 Views
32 Pages

5 November 2023

The action of a noise operator on a code transforms it into a distribution on the respective space. Some common examples from information theory include Bernoulli noise acting on a code in the Hamming space and Gaussian noise acting on a lattice in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extremal and Additive Combinatorial Aspects in Information Theory)

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