Insight into Entropy
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2025) | Viewed by 1557
Special Issue Editors
Interests: concepts of entropy and their applications; nonlinear diffusion
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Interests: quantum gravity; superfluids; Bose–Einstein condensates; hybrid-symbolic numerics; computational physics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Entropy is a paramount concept. It can be a measure of width of a distribution, and it is often related to the level of chaos or randomness in a system. It is one of the most important concepts in physics and in information theory. The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases (never decreases) in any process. It is transcendental in that it is a key component of entropic or emergent gravity but anthropomorphic in that it requires human notions of measure, disorder and cost. Thus, it is not surprising that we have different mathematical assessments of entropy from different disciplines, including theoretical Physics, Biology, Cosmology and Economics:
- Von Neumann entropy;
- Everett–Hirschman entropy also called “entropic uncertainty”;
- Information or Shannon entropy or differential entropy;
- Algorithmic entropy (Kolmogorov complexity);
- Rényi entropy (min-entropy);
- Tsallis entropy, etc.
This Special Issue welcomes efforts in integrating these various definitions of entropy and/or finding out more about them so as to increase our insight into the very concept of entropy. There is likely no unique definition of entropy, but insight can be derived from connections and comparisons between these definitions and/or increased understanding from the individual concepts. Special attention will be focused on applications in quantum theory.
Prof. Dr. Philip Broadbridge
Dr. Tony C. Scott
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Everett–Hirschman entropy
- Von Neumann entropy
- Shannon entropy
- Rényi entropy
- Tsallis entropy
- quantum theory
- nonlinear optics
- logarithmic Schrödinger equation
- superfluids
- superconductors
- emergent gravity
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