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Entropy, Volume 28, Issue 2

2026 February - 120 articles

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Articles (120)

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Entropy2026, 28(2), 251;https://doi.org/10.3390/e28020251 
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22 February 2026

Error correction is an essential part of the theory of quantum computation. However, new quantum computation students may find the theories of error correction and fault tolerance daunting, or they may be stuck with theoretical/outdated schemes (such...

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Entropy2026, 28(2), 250;https://doi.org/10.3390/e28020250 
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22 February 2026

Let p be a prime with p{2,5} and let q=pm. This paper studies cyclic and self-orthogonal linear codes of length n over the finite local non-Frobenius ring Rp,u,v=Fq+uFq+vFq,u2=v2=uv=vu=0. We define an Fq-linear Gray map πn:Rp,u,vnFq6n...

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Entropy2026, 28(2), 249;https://doi.org/10.3390/e28020249 
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21 February 2026

This paper investigates the performance of a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) broadcast channel under the practical constraints of imperfect, delayed, and quantized channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). Conventional in...

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Energy-Efficient 3D Trajectory Optimization and Resource Allocation for UAV-Enabled ISAC Systems

  • Lulu Jing,
  • Hai Wang,
  • Zhen Qin,
  • Yicheng Zhao,
  • Yi Zhu and
  • Wensheng Zhao
Entropy2026, 28(2), 248;https://doi.org/10.3390/e28020248 
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21 February 2026

Owing to their high flexibility, autonomous operation, and rapid deployment capability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as effective aerial platforms for sensing and communication in remote and time-critical scenarios. However, their limited on...

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A Comparison of Algorithms to Achieve the Maximum Entropy in the Theory of Evidence

  • Joaquín Abellán,
  • Aina López-Gay,
  • Maria Isabel A. Benítez and
  • Francisco Javier G. Castellano
Entropy2026, 28(2), 247;https://doi.org/10.3390/e28020247 
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21 February 2026

Within the framework of evidence theory, maximum entropy is regarded as a measure of total uncertainty that satisfies a comprehensive set of mathematical properties and behavioral requirements. However, its practical applicability is severely questio...

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20 February 2026

The spontaneous emergence of macroscopic dissipative structures in systems driven by generalized chemical potentials is well established in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Examples include atmospheric/oceanic currents, hurricanes and tornadoes, Rayle...

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30 Views
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20 February 2026

We study the problem of joint sensing and secure communications in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based symbiotic radio (SR) system. In the considered system, a dual-functional radar and communication base station (DFRC-BS) achieves secur...

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Coupled Dynamics of Vaccination Behavior and Epidemic Spreading on Multilayer Higher-Order Networks

  • Zhishuang Wang,
  • Guoqiang Zeng,
  • Qian Yin,
  • Linyuan Guo and
  • Zhiyong Hong

20 February 2026

Vaccination behavior and epidemic spreading are strongly intertwined processes, and their coevolution is often shaped by both individual decision-making and social interactions. However, most existing studies model such interactions at the pairwise l...

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96 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Scale Feature Learning for Farmland Segmentation Under Complex Spatial Structures

  • Yongqi Han,
  • Yuqing Wang,
  • Yun Zhang,
  • Hongfu Ai,
  • Chuan Qin and
  • Xinle Zhang

19 February 2026

Fragmented, irregular, and scale-heterogeneous farmland parcels introduce high spatial complexity into high-resolution remote sensing imagery, leading to boundary ambiguity and inter-class spectral confusion that hinder effective feature discriminati...

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161 Views
21 Pages

19 February 2026

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems in complex evaluation systems are often characterized by high uncertainty in expert judgments and dynamic variations in indicator importance. Traditional analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and entropy-base...

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66 Views
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19 February 2026

The operational reliability of aero-engines is critically dependent on the health of rolling element bearings, while incipient fault diagnosis remains particularly challenging under small-sample conditions. Although multiscale entropy methods are wid...

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Dissipative Realization of a Quantum Distance-Based Classifier Using Open Quantum Walks

  • Pedro Linck Maciel,
  • Graeme Pleasance,
  • Francesco Petruccione and
  • Nadja K. Bernardes

19 February 2026

Open quantum walks (OQWs) constitute a class of quantum walks whose dynamics are entirely driven by interactions with the environment. It is well known that OQWs provide a general framework for implementing dissipative quantum computation. In this wo...

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The Interplay Between Non-Instantaneous Dynamics of mRNA and Bounded Extrinsic Stochastic Perturbations for a Self-Enhancing Transcription Factor

  • Lorenzo Cabriel,
  • Giulio Caravagna,
  • Sebastiano de Franciscis,
  • Fabio Anselmi and
  • Alberto D’Onofrio

19 February 2026

In this work, we consider a simple bistable motif constituted by a self-enhancing Transcription Factor (TF) and its mRNA with non-instantaneous dynamics. In particular, we mainly numerically investigated the impact of bounded stochastic perturbations...

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18 February 2026

We study the properties of a plasma sheath containing cold positive ions, secondary electrons, and primary electrons with a Cairns distribution (a non-thermal velocity distribution). We derive the generalized Bohm criterion and Bohm speed, the new fl...

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112 Views
22 Pages

18 February 2026

The inference of unstructured text semantics is a crucial preprocessing task for NLP and AI applications. Word sense disambiguation and entity linking tasks resolve ambiguous terms within unstructured text corpora to senses from a predefined knowledg...

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95 Views
47 Pages

A Survey of Lattice-Based Physical-Layer Security for Wireless Systems with p-Modular Lattice Constructions

  • Hassan Khodaiemehr,
  • Khadijeh Bagheri,
  • Amin Mohajer,
  • Chen Feng,
  • Daniel Panario and
  • Victor C. M. Leung

18 February 2026

Physical-layer security (PLS) provides an information-theoretic framework for securing wireless communications by exploiting channel and signal-structure asymmetries, thereby avoiding reliance on computational hardness assumptions. Within this settin...

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96 Views
33 Pages

Review of Prognosis Approaches Applied to Power SiC MOSFETs for Health State and Remaining Useful Life Prediction

  • Sanjiv Kumar,
  • Bruno Allard,
  • Malorie Hologne-Carpentier,
  • Guy Clerc and
  • François Auger

17 February 2026

The use of Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs significantly improves converter performance by increasing efficiency and reducing costs, to the detriment of electro-magnetic emission and reliability. Implementing a predictive maintenance strategy based on...

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132 Views
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Outlier Detection in Functional Data Using Adjusted Outlyingness

  • Zhenghui Feng,
  • Xiaodan Hong,
  • Yingxing Li,
  • Xiaofei Song and
  • Ketao Zhang

16 February 2026

In signal processing and information analysis, the detection and identification of anomalies present in signals constitute a critical research focus. Accurately discerning these deviations using probabilistic, statistical, and information-theoretic m...

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140 Views
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A Multiple-Well Framework for Human Perceptual Decision-Making

  • Joseph Fluegemann,
  • Jiaqi Huang,
  • Morgan Lena Rosendahl,
  • Jerome Busemeyer and
  • Jonathan D. Cohen

16 February 2026

We present a quantum cognitive model that integrates the influence of cognitive control into human perceptual decision-making. The model employs a multiple-square-well potential, where each well corresponds to a distinct decision outcome. In this fra...

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92 Views
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16 February 2026

Path integral Monte Carlo simulations and closure computations of quantum fluid triplet structures in the diffraction regime are presented. The principal aim is to shed some more light on the long-standing problem of quantum fluid triplet structures....

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193 Views
25 Pages

Link Prediction in Heterogeneous Information Networks: Improved Hypergraph Convolution with Adaptive Soft Voting

  • Sheng Zhang,
  • Yuyuan Huang,
  • Ziqiang Luo,
  • Jiangnan Zhou,
  • Bing Wu,
  • Ka Sun and
  • Hongmei Mao

16 February 2026

Complex real-world systems are often modeled as heterogeneous information networks with diverse node and relation types, bringing new opportunities and challenges to link prediction. Traditional methods based on similarity or meta-paths fail to fully...

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106 Views
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16 February 2026

The superposition principle in quantum mechanics enables the encoding of an entire solution space within a single quantum state. By employing quantum routines such as amplitude amplification or the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), t...

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82 Views
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A Generalization of the DMC

  • Sergey Tridenski and
  • Anelia Somekh-Baruch

16 February 2026

We consider a generalization of the discrete memoryless channel, in which the channel probability distribution is replaced by a uniform distribution over clouds of channel output sequences. For a random ensemble of such channels, we derive an achieva...

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119 Views
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15 February 2026

Trajectory prediction is critical for safe robot navigation, yet standard deep learning models predominantly rely on the Mean Squared Error (MSE) criterion. While effective under ideal conditions, MSE-based optimization is inherently fragile to non-G...

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138 Views
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15 February 2026

In this paper, an observer-based proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is designed for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with integral measurements, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and bounded stochastic noises under a binary encodin...

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137 Views
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14 February 2026

In the post-pandemic era, student mental health challenges have emerged as a critical issue in higher education. However, conventional assessment approaches often treat at-risk populations as a monolithic entity, thereby limiting intervention effecti...

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154 Views
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14 February 2026

Context: Code recommendation plays an important role in improving programming efficiency and software quality. Existing approaches mainly focus on method- or API-level recommendations, which limits their effectiveness to local code contexts. From a m...

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176 Views
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State of Health Evaluation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using the Statistical Properties of the Voltage

  • Abdelilah Hammou,
  • Raffaele Petrone,
  • Demba Diallo,
  • Claude Delpha and
  • Hamid Gualous

14 February 2026

Conventional indicators of battery health, such as capacity and energy, are difficult to measure directly and are therefore often estimated. This article proposes assessing lithium-ion battery health using the statistical properties of the voltage ac...

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Switching Coordinator: An SDN Application for Flexible QKD Networks

  • Rubén B. Méndez,
  • Hans H. Brunner,
  • Juan P. Brito,
  • Hamid Taramit,
  • Chi-Hang Fred Fung,
  • Antonio Pastor,
  • Rafael Cantó,
  • Jesús Folgueira,
  • Diego R. López and
  • Vicente Martin
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13 February 2026

A monitor and control framework for quantum-key-distribution (QKD) networks equipped with switching capabilities was developed. On the one hand, this framework provides real-time visibility into operational metrics. Specifically, it extracts essentia...

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147 Views
21 Pages

13 February 2026

The early diagnosis of depression is often impeded by the subjectivity inherent in traditional clinical assessments. To advance objective screening, this study proposes a lightweight neural network framework designed to discriminate between pathologi...

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129 Views
20 Pages

RL-Based Parallel LDPC Decoding with Clustered Scheduling

  • Yusuf Ozkan,
  • Yauhen Yakimenka and
  • Jörg Kliewer

12 February 2026

We propose a reinforcement learning (RL)-based decoding framework for high-throughput parallel decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes using clustered scheduling. Parallel LDPC decoders must balance error-correction performance and decoding...

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133 Views
23 Pages

12 February 2026

This paper presents a detailed investigation of the deterministic and stochastic dynamics of a noise-driven forced nonlinear oscillator in a periodically driven framework. An overlap-mapping approach is used to compare multiple traveling-wave solutio...

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251 Views
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12 February 2026

Frustration is an intrinsic feature of molecular complexes, arising when individual constituents must distort from their optimal isolated geometries to achieve collective stabilization. Although energetic frustration can be defined as the average dis...

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129 Views
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Multi-Entropy Feature Concatenation for Data-Efficient Cross-Subject Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia from Single-Channel EEG

  • Jiawen Li,
  • Chen Ling,
  • Weidong Zhang,
  • Jujian Lv,
  • Xianglei Hu,
  • Kaihan Lin,
  • Jun Yuan,
  • Shuang Zhang and
  • Rongjun Chen

12 February 2026

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are neurodegenerative disorders where early detection is vital. However, the need for long-term monitoring is incompatible with data-scarce settings, and methods trained on one subject...

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228 Views
46 Pages

11 February 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally transforming intelligent traffic systems by enabling semantic abstraction, probabilistic reasoning, and multimodal information fusion across heterogeneous data. This review examines existing research on...

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110 Views
19 Pages

11 February 2026

Gas–liquid two-phase flow instability is a key issue affecting the safety and efficiency of industrial systems, and the accurate characterization of its multiscale dynamic characteristics remains a challenge. This study proposes a novel approac...

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153 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2026

This paper develops two nonparametric test statistics for testing exponentiality against alternatives in the increasing failure rate average (IFRA) class. The proposed procedures are constructed using information-theoretic functionals, namely the cum...

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125 Views
21 Pages

11 February 2026

The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has created many problems. A wise example is presented by the design of secure, efficient authentication and key agreement (AKA) protocols. A novel three-factor AKA protocol for the IoT is presented in this...

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175 Views
27 Pages

Efficient EM Estimation for the Pogit Model via Polya-Gamma Augmentation

  • Iván Gutiérrez,
  • Sandra Ramírez and
  • Leonardo Jofré

11 February 2026

The Poisson-logistic (pogit) model is widely used for count data with latent intensities, with applications including under-reporting correction and share-of-wallet estimation, yet existing estimation methods do not scale well to large datasets. We p...

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192 Views
14 Pages

11 February 2026

The thermodynamic stability of the evolution of a simple conservatively perturbed chemical equilibrium, that is, a two-step reversible reaction, is investigated using the Lyapunov thermodynamic stability formulation. We show that such systems are asy...

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212 Views
28 Pages

Quantum Information Flow in Microtubule Tryptophan Networks

  • Lea Gassab,
  • Onur Pusuluk and
  • Travis J. A. Craddock

11 February 2026

Networks of aromatic amino acid residues within microtubules, particularly those formed by tryptophan, may serve as pathways for optical information flow. Ultraviolet excitation dynamics in these networks are typically modeled with effective non-Herm...

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