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Entropy, Volume 22, Issue 11

2020 November - 143 articles

Cover Story: The uncertainty principle is unquestionably one of the foundational pillars of quantum mechanics, marking the indeterministic nature of the microscopic world. Following Heisenberg's seminal exposition and its standardization by Kennard and Robertson as a relation for the indeterminacy of quantum states, a variety of other formulations appeared that address the diverse manifestations of quantum uncertainty. A novel uncertainty relation for errors, which also covers the standard indeterminacy relation as a special case, is reported with a focus on general POVM measurements. The use of the relation is demonstrated in familiar two-state quantum systems, in which it is found to offer virtually the tightest lower bound possible for both the errors and the state indeterminacy regarding a pair of observables. View this paper
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Articles (143)

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,567 Views
42 Pages

Thermodynamic Formalism in Neuronal Dynamics and Spike Train Statistics

  • Rodrigo Cofré,
  • Cesar Maldonado and
  • Bruno Cessac

23 November 2020

The Thermodynamic Formalism provides a rigorous mathematical framework for studying quantitative and qualitative aspects of dynamical systems. At its core, there is a variational principle that corresponds, in its simplest form, to the Maximum Entrop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,596 Views
19 Pages

Information Network Modeling for U.S. Banking Systemic Risk

  • Giancarlo Nicola,
  • Paola Cerchiello and
  • Tomaso Aste

23 November 2020

In this work we investigate whether information theory measures like mutual information and transfer entropy, extracted from a bank network, Granger cause financial stress indexes like LIBOR-OIS (London Interbank Offered Rate-Overnight Index Swap) sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,470 Views
30 Pages

23 November 2020

A geometrical formulation of estimation theory for finite-dimensional C-algebras is presented. This formulation allows to deal with the classical and quantum case in a single, unifying mathematical framework. The derivation of the Cramer&ndas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,910 Views
15 Pages

22 November 2020

A load-sharing system is defined as a parallel system whose load will be redistributed to its surviving components as each of the components fails in the system. Our focus is on making statistical inference of the parameters associated with the lifet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,758 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2020

The present study aimed to develop and investigate the local discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical solution of the fractional logistic differential equation, occurring in many biological and social science phenomena. The fractional derivati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,558 Views
14 Pages

Optimization, Stability, and Entropy in Endoreversible Heat Engines

  • Julian Gonzalez-Ayala,
  • José Miguel Mateos Roco,
  • Alejandro Medina and
  • Antonio Calvo Hernández

20 November 2020

The stability of endoreversible heat engines has been extensively studied in the literature. In this paper, an alternative dynamic equations system was obtained by using restitution forces that bring the system back to the stationary state. The depar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,570 Views
38 Pages

20 November 2020

In optical communications, four-dimensional (4D) modulation formats encode information onto the quadrature components of two arbitrary orthogonal states of polarisation of the optical field. Many analytical models available in the optical communicati...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,306 Views
44 Pages

20 November 2020

Information bottleneck (IB) and privacy funnel (PF) are two closely related optimization problems which have found applications in machine learning, design of privacy algorithms, capacity problems (e.g., Mrs. Gerber’s Lemma), and strong data pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,997 Views
25 Pages

20 November 2020

Ionic transport in nano- to sub-nano-scale pores is highly dependent on translocation barriers and potential wells. These features in the free-energy landscape are primarily the result of ion dehydration and electrostatic interactions. For pores in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,210 Views
16 Pages

Fractional Dynamics Identification via Intelligent Unpacking of the Sample Autocovariance Function by Neural Networks

  • Dawid Szarek,
  • Grzegorz Sikora,
  • Michał Balcerek,
  • Ireneusz Jabłoński and
  • Agnieszka Wyłomańska

20 November 2020

Many single-particle tracking data related to the motion in crowded environments exhibit anomalous diffusion behavior. This phenomenon can be described by different theoretical models. In this paper, fractional Brownian motion (FBM) was examined as t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,047 Views
12 Pages

19 November 2020

The influence of enhanced gravity on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the Al0.9CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy, which was solidified under normal gravity (acceleration 1 g) and enhanced gravity (acceleration 140 g, acceleration 210 g, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,363 Views
11 Pages

Cluster Structure of Optimal Solutions in Bipartitioning of Small Worlds

  • Adam Lipowski,
  • António L. Ferreira and
  • Dorota Lipowska

19 November 2020

Using simulated annealing, we examine a bipartitioning of small worlds obtained by adding a fraction of randomly chosen links to a one-dimensional chain or a square lattice. Models defined on small worlds typically exhibit a mean-field behavior, rega...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,786 Views
13 Pages

Scattering as a Quantum Metrology Problem: A Quantum Walk Approach

  • Francesco Zatelli,
  • Claudia Benedetti and
  • Matteo G. A. Paris

19 November 2020

We address the scattering of a quantum particle by a one-dimensional barrier potential over a set of discrete positions. We formalize the problem as a continuous-time quantum walk on a lattice with an impurity and use the quantum Fisher information a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,503 Views
21 Pages

18 November 2020

In many applications of interacting systems, we are only interested in the dynamic behavior of a subset of all possible active species. For example, this is true in combustion models (many transient chemical species are not of interest in a given rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,129 Views
26 Pages

18 November 2020

A novel compressed air energy storage (CAES) system has been developed, which is innovatively integrated with a coal-fired power plant based on its feedwater heating system. In the hybrid design, the compression heat of the CAES system is transferred...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,890 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2020

In order to study the spread of an epidemic over a region as a function of time, we introduce an entropy ratio U describing the uniformity of infections over various states and their districts, and an entropy concentration coefficient C=1U. The latt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,978 Views
26 Pages

18 November 2020

Currently, deep learning has shown state-of-the-art performance in image classification with pre-defined taxonomy. However, in a more real-world scenario, different users usually have different classification intents given an image collection. To sat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,213 Views
16 Pages

18 November 2020

The Laplace distribution of random processes was observed in numerous situations that include glasses, colloidal suspensions, live cells, and firm growth. Its origin is not so trivial as in the case of Gaussian distribution, supported by the central...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,550 Views
28 Pages

Estimation of the Reliability of a Stress–Strength System from Poisson Half Logistic Distribution

  • Isyaku Muhammad,
  • Xingang Wang,
  • Changyou Li,
  • Mingming Yan and
  • Miaoxin Chang

17 November 2020

This paper discussed the estimation of stress-strength reliability parameter R=P(Y<X) based on complete samples when the stress-strength are two independent Poisson half logistic random variables (PHLD). We have addressed the estimation of R in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,145 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2020

Finding the proper entropy-like Lyapunov functional associated with the inelastic Boltzmann equation for an isolated freely cooling granular gas is a still unsolved challenge. The original H-theorem hypotheses do not fit here and the H-functional pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,365 Views
19 Pages

17 November 2020

We introduce a Virtual Studio Technology (VST) 2 audio effect plugin that performs convolution reverb using synthetic Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) generated via a Genetic Algorithm (GA). The parameters of the plugin include some of those defined und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,450 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2020

Acquiring knowledge about users’ opinion and what they say regarding specific features within an app, constitutes a solid steppingstone for understanding their needs and concerns. App review utilization helps project management teams to identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,632 Views
12 Pages

17 November 2020

In XXZ chains with large enough interactions, spin transport can be significantly suppressed when the bias of the dissipative driving becomes large enough. This phenomenon of negative differential conductance is caused by the formation of two opposit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,133 Views
17 Pages

17 November 2020

This paper considers monitoring an anomaly from sequentially observed time series with heteroscedastic conditional volatilities based on the cumulative sum (CUSUM) method combined with support vector regression (SVR). The proposed online monitoring p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,220 Views
20 Pages

Applying Text Analytics for Studying Research Trends in Dependability

  • Miriam Louise Carnot,
  • Jorge Bernardino,
  • Nuno Laranjeiro and
  • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

16 November 2020

The dependability of systems and networks has been the target of research for many years now. In the 1970s, what is now known as the top conference on dependability—The IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
10,882 Views
19 Pages

Dissipative Structures, Organisms and Evolution

  • Dilip K Kondepudi,
  • Benjamin De Bari and
  • James A. Dixon

16 November 2020

Self-organization in nonequilibrium systems has been known for over 50 years. Under nonequilibrium conditions, the state of a system can become unstable and a transition to an organized structure can occur. Such structures include oscillating chemica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,689 Views
17 Pages

Noise Reduction in Spur Gear Systems

  • Aurelio Liguori,
  • Enrico Armentani,
  • Alcide Bertocco,
  • Andrea Formato,
  • Arcangelo Pellegrino and
  • Francesco Villecco

16 November 2020

This article lists some tips for reducing gear case noise. With this aim, a static analysis was carried out in order to describe how stresses resulting from meshing gears affect the acoustic emissions. Different parameters were taken into account, su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,799 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2020

In this study, we consider an online monitoring procedure to detect a parameter change for integer-valued generalized autoregressive heteroscedastic (INGARCH) models whose conditional density of present observations over past information follows one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,945 Views
26 Pages

On the Variability of Heart Rate Variability—Evidence from Prospective Study of Healthy Young College Students

  • Xingran Cui,
  • Leirong Tian,
  • Zhengwen Li,
  • Zikai Ren,
  • Keyang Zha,
  • Xinruo Wei and
  • Chung-Kang Peng

15 November 2020

Heart rate variability (HRV) has been widely used as indices for autonomic regulation, including linear analyses, entropy and multi-scale entropy based nonlinear analyses, and however, it is strongly influenced by the conditions under which the signa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,107 Views
18 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Multispectral Facial Presentation Attack Detection in Automated Border Control Systems

  • M. Araceli Sánchez-Sánchez,
  • Cristina Conde,
  • Beatriz Gómez-Ayllón,
  • David Ortega-DelCampo,
  • Aristeidis Tsitiridis,
  • Daniel Palacios-Alonso and
  • Enrique Cabello

14 November 2020

Automated border control systems are the first critical infrastructure point when crossing a border country. Crossing border lines for unauthorized passengers is a high security risk to any country. This paper presents a multispectral analysis of pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,996 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2020

Electrocardiography (ECG) and electroencephalography (EEG) signals provide clinical information relevant to determine a patient’s health status. The nonlinear analysis of ECG and EEG signals allows for discovering characteristics that could not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,821 Views
16 Pages

Combining Sparse and Dense Features to Improve Multi-Modal Registration for Brain DTI Images

  • Simona Moldovanu,
  • Lenuta Pană Toporaș,
  • Anjan Biswas and
  • Luminita Moraru

14 November 2020

A new solution to overcome the constraints of multimodality medical intra-subject image registration is proposed, using the mutual information (MI) of image histogram-oriented gradients as a new matching criterion. We present a rigid, multi-modal ima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,332 Views
30 Pages

A Computational Model of Tonal Tension Profile of Chord Progressions in the Tonal Interval Space

  • María Navarro-Cáceres,
  • Marcelo Caetano,
  • Gilberto Bernardes,
  • Mercedes Sánchez-Barba and
  • Javier Merchán Sánchez-Jara

13 November 2020

In tonal music, musical tension is strongly associated with musical expression, particularly with expectations and emotions. Most listeners are able to perceive musical tension subjectively, yet musical tension is difficult to be measured objectively...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,635 Views
18 Pages

Evolution of Classical and Quantum States in the Groupoid Picture of Quantum Mechanics

  • Florio M. Ciaglia,
  • Fabio Di Cosmo,
  • Alberto Ibort and
  • Giuseppe Marmo

13 November 2020

The evolution of states of the composition of classical and quantum systems in the groupoid formalism for physical theories introduced recently is discussed. It is shown that the notion of a classical system, in the sense of Birkhoff and von Neumann,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,940 Views
20 Pages

13 November 2020

This study examined the extreme learning machine (ELM) applied to the Wald test statistic for the model specification of the conditional mean, which we call the WELM testing procedure. The omnibus test statistics available in the literature weakly co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,213 Views
17 Pages

Enumerating Tree-Like Graphs and Polymer Topologies with a Given Cycle Rank

  • Naveed Ahmed Azam,
  • Aleksandar Shurbevski and
  • Hiroshi Nagamochi

13 November 2020

Cycle rank is an important notion that is widely used to classify, understand, and discover new chemical compounds. We propose a method to enumerate all non-isomorphic tree-like graphs of a given cycle rank with self-loops and no multiple edges. To a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,770 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Different Local Vibration Frequencies on the Multiscale Regularity of Plantar Skin Blood Flow

  • Fuyuan Liao,
  • Keying Zhang,
  • Lingling Zhou,
  • Yanni Chen,
  • Jeannette Elliott and
  • Yih-Kuen Jan

13 November 2020

Local vibration has shown promise in improving skin blood flow (SBF). However, there is no consensus on the selection of the best vibration frequency. An important reason may be that previous studies utilized time- and frequency-domain parameters to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,959 Views
22 Pages

13 November 2020

Computer-aided classification serves as the basis of virtual cultural relic management and display. The majority of the existing cultural relic classification methods require labelling of the samples of the dataset; however, in practical applications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,043 Views
11 Pages

Diauxic Growth at the Mesoscopic Scale

  • Mirosław Lachowicz and
  • Mateusz Dȩbowski

12 November 2020

In the present paper, we study a diauxic growth that can be generated by a class of model at the mesoscopic scale. Although the diauxic growth can be related to the macroscopic scale, similarly to the logistic scale, one may ask whether models on mes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,885 Views
20 Pages

12 November 2020

Stochastic separation theorems play important roles in high-dimensional data analysis and machine learning. It turns out that in high dimensional space, any point of a random set of points can be separated from other points by a hyperplane with high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,658 Views
8 Pages

12 November 2020

This research article shows how the pricing of derivative securities can be seen from the context of stochastic optimal control theory and information theory. The financial market is seen as an information processing system, which optimizes an inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,784 Views
11 Pages

12 November 2020

For the identification of non-trivial quantum phase, we exploit a Bell-type correlation that is applied to the one-dimensional spin-1 XXZ chain. It is found that our generalization of bipartite Bell correlation can take a decomposed form of transvers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,844 Views
16 Pages

Generative Art with Swarm Landscapes

  • Diogo de Andrade,
  • Nuno Fachada,
  • Carlos M. Fernandes and
  • Agostinho C. Rosa

12 November 2020

We present a generative swarm art project that creates 3D animations by running a Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm over synthetic landscapes produced by an objective function. Different kinds of functions are explored, including mathematical exp...

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