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Entropy, Volume 25, Issue 2

2023 February - 211 articles

Cover Story: The quest to invent thermal machines at the nanoscale has led to the new field of quantum thermodynamics. Recent technological advancement has enabled the experimental realization of quantum thermal machines powered by measurements and feedback, such as Maxwell’s demons and Szilard’s engines. These are devices where measurements and feedback allow, respectively, the extraction of heat or work from a single thermal bath. We study two different configurations of coupled-qubit-based thermal devices powered by discrete as well as continuous weak quantum measurements, namely a quantum Maxwell’s demon, and a measurement-assisted refrigerator. The measurement-assisted refrigerator extracts heat from a cold bath, exploiting the combination of external work and invasive quantum measurements. View this paper
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Articles (211)

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,553 Views
10 Pages

20 February 2023

There is currently great interest in systems represented by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, including a wide variety of real systems that may be dissipative and whose behaviour can be represented by a “phase” parameter that characterises the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,957 Views
16 Pages

20 February 2023

Existing secure multiparty computation protocol from secret sharing is usually under this assumption of the fast network, which limits the practicality of the scheme on the low bandwidth and high latency network. A proven method is to reduce the comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,851 Views
17 Pages

Effect of Gap Length and Partition Thickness on Thermal Boundary Layer in Thermal Convection

  • Zhengyu Wang,
  • Huilin Tong,
  • Zhengdao Wang,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Yikun Wei and
  • Yuehong Qian

20 February 2023

Two-dimensional direct numerical simulations of partitioned thermal convection are performed using the thermal lattice Boltzmann method for the Rayleigh number (Ra) of 109 and the Prandtl number (Pr) of 7.02 (water). The influence of the partition wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,459 Views
14 Pages

Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Ingredients Identification

  • Shi Chen,
  • Ruixue Li,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Jiakai Liang,
  • Keqiang Yue,
  • Wenjun Li and
  • Yilin Li

20 February 2023

In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence, smart catering has become one of the most popular research fields, where ingredients identification is a necessary and significant link. The automatic identification of ingredients can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,543 Views
13 Pages

20 February 2023

Qubits, which are the quantum counterparts of classical bits, are used as basic information units for quantum information processing, whereas underlying physical information carriers, e.g., (artificial) atoms or ions, admit encoding of more complex m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,139 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2023

We study the set of integer partitions as a probability space that generates distributions and, in the asymptotic limit, obeys thermodynamics. We view ordered integer partition as a configuration of cluster masses and associate them with the distribu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
20,321 Views
11 Pages

20 February 2023

We study the concepts of residence time vs. adjustment time time for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The system is analyzed with a two-box first-order model. Using this model, we reach three important conclusions: (1) The adjustment time is never l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,411 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2023

Statistical Topology emerged as topological aspects continue to gain importance in many areas of physics. It is most desirable to study topological invariants and their statistics in schematic models that facilitate the identification of universaliti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,386 Views
16 Pages

19 February 2023

A key component of the joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme based on double low-density parity-check (D-LDPC) codes is the introduction of a linking matrix between the source LDPC code and channel LDPC code, by which the decoding information inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,123 Views
14 Pages

A Pedestrian Detection Network Model Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Ming-Lun Li,
  • Guo-Bing Sun and
  • Jia-Xiang Yu

19 February 2023

Advanced object detection methods always face high algorithmic complexity or low accuracy when used in pedestrian target detection for the autonomous driving system. This paper proposes a lightweight pedestrian detection approach called the YOLOv5s-G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,950 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2023

Recently, advances in detection and re-identification techniques have significantly boosted tracking-by-detection-based multi-pedestrian tracking (MPT) methods and made MPT a great success in most easy scenes. Several very recent works point out that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,572 Views
13 Pages

Earthquake Nowcasting: Retrospective Testing in Greece

  • Gerasimos Chouliaras,
  • Efthimios S. Skordas and
  • Nicholas V. Sarlis

19 February 2023

Earthquake nowcasting (EN) is a modern method of estimating seismic risk by evaluating the progress of the earthquake (EQ) cycle in fault systems. EN evaluation is based on a new concept of time, termed ’natural time’. EN employs natural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,409 Views
13 Pages

18 February 2023

Face recognition technology has developed rapidly in recent years, and a large number of applications based on face recognition have emerged. Because the template generated by the face recognition system stores the relevant information of facial biom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,593 Views
16 Pages

Cryptocurrencies Are Becoming Part of the World Global Financial Market

  • Marcin Wątorek,
  • Jarosław Kwapień and
  • Stanisław Drożdż

18 February 2023

In this study the cross-correlations between the cryptocurrency market represented by the two most liquid and highest-capitalized cryptocurrencies: bitcoin and ethereum, on the one side, and the instruments representing the traditional financial mark...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,660 Views
37 Pages

18 February 2023

Quantum information applications emerged decades ago, initially introducing a parallel development that mimicked the approach and development of classical computer science. However, in the current decade, novel computer-science concepts were rapidly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,086 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2023

Voice conversion (VC) consists of digitally altering the voice of an individual to manipulate part of its content, primarily its identity, while maintaining the rest unchanged. Research in neural VC has accomplished considerable breakthroughs with th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,316 Views
15 Pages

Effective Connectivity and Bias Entropy Improve Prediction of Dynamical Regime in Automata Networks

  • Felipe Xavier Costa,
  • Jordan C. Rozum,
  • Austin M. Marcus and
  • Luis M. Rocha

18 February 2023

Biomolecular network dynamics are thought to operate near the critical boundary between ordered and disordered regimes, where large perturbations to a small set of elements neither die out nor spread on average. A biomolecular automaton (e.g., gene,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,172 Views
18 Pages

Dollar-Yuan Battle in the World Trade Network

  • Célestin Coquidé,
  • José Lages and
  • Dima L. Shepelyansky

17 February 2023

From the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 till the present day, the US dollar has been the dominant currency in world trade. However, the rise of the Chinese economy has recently led to the emergence of trade transactions in Chinese yuan. Here, we mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,435 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2023

In this article, we show that a quantum gas, a collection of massive, non-interacting, indistinguishable quantum particles, can be realized as a thermodynamic machine as an artifact of energy quantization and, hence, bears no classical analog. Such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,850 Views
25 Pages

17 February 2023

Emerging or diminishing nonlinear interactions in the evolution of a complex system may signal a possible structural change in its underlying mechanism. This type of structural break may exist in many applications, such as in climate and finance, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,335 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2023

The ability to build more robust clustering from many clustering models with different solutions is relevant in scenarios with privacy-preserving constraints, where data features have a different nature or where these features are not available in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,331 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2023

Linear codes with a few weights have been extensively studied due to their wide applications in secret sharing schemes, strongly regular graphs, association schemes, and authentication codes. In this paper, we choose the defining sets from two distin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,692 Views
16 Pages

Chaos and Predictability in Ionospheric Time Series

  • Massimo Materassi,
  • Tommaso Alberti,
  • Yenca Migoya-Orué,
  • Sandro Maria Radicella and
  • Giuseppe Consolini

17 February 2023

Modelling the Earth’s ionosphere is a big challenge, due to the complexity of the system. Different first principle models have been developed over the last 50 years, based on ionospheric physics and chemistry, mostly controlled by Space Weathe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,415 Views
17 Pages

17 February 2023

In this paper, a quantity that describes a response of a system’s eigenstates to a very small perturbation of physical relevance is studied as a measure for characterizing crossover from integrable to chaotic quantum systems. It is computed fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,346 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2023

In order to abstract away a network model from some real-world networks, such as navigation satellite networks and mobile call networks, we proposed an Isochronal-Evolution Random Matching Network (IERMN) model. An IERMN is a dynamic network that evo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,747 Views
15 Pages

16 February 2023

Discovering communities in complex networks is essential in performing analyses, such as dynamics of political fragmentation and echo chambers in social networks. In this work, we study the problem of quantifying the significance of edges in a comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,780 Views
32 Pages

Distribution of the Age of Gossip in Networks

  • Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid and
  • Harpreet S. Dhillon

16 February 2023

We study a general setting of gossip networks in which a source node forwards its measurements (in the form of status updates) about some observed physical process to a set of monitoring nodes according to independent Poisson processes. Furthermore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,336 Views
17 Pages

15 February 2023

In the cloud, uploading encrypted data is the most effective way to ensure that the data are not leaked. However, data access control is still an open problem in cloud storage systems. To provide an authorization mechanism to limit the comparison of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,635 Views
19 Pages

15 February 2023

Hash is one of the most widely used methods for computing efficiency and storage efficiency. With the development of deep learning, the deep hash method shows more advantages than traditional methods. This paper proposes a method to convert entities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,327 Views
16 Pages

A Well-Posed Fractional Order Cholera Model with Saturated Incidence Rate

  • Isa Abdullahi Baba,
  • Usa Wannasingha Humphries and
  • Fathalla A. Rihan

15 February 2023

A fractional-order cholera model in the Caputo sense is constructed. The model is an extension of the Susceptible–Infected–Recovered (SIR) epidemic model. The transmission dynamics of the disease are studied by incorporating the saturated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,217 Views
38 Pages

15 February 2023

Chaotic nonlinear dynamical systems, in which the generated time series exhibit high entropy values, have been extensively used and play essential roles in tracking accurately the complex fluctuations of the real-world financial markets. We are conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,948 Views
11 Pages

15 February 2023

As the connection between classical and quantum worlds, quantum measurements play a unique role in the era of quantum information processing. Given an arbitrary function of quantum measurements, how to obtain its optimal value is often considered as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,097 Views
15 Pages

15 February 2023

In this paper, a joint group shuffled scheduling decoding (JGSSD) algorithm for a joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme based on double low-density parity-check (D-LDPC) codes is presented. The proposed algorithm considers the D-LDPC coding struc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,161 Views
15 Pages

Ultrasoft Classical Systems at Zero Temperature

  • Matheus de Mello,
  • Rogelio Díaz-Méndez and
  • Alejandro Mendoza-Coto

15 February 2023

At low temperatures, classical ultrasoft particle systems develop interesting phases via the self-assembly of particle clusters. In this study, we reach analytical expressions for the energy and the density interval of the coexistence regions for gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,697 Views
16 Pages

14 February 2023

Time-series data often have an abrupt structure change at an unknown location. This paper proposes a new statistic to test the existence of a change-point in a multinomial sequence, where the number of categories is comparable with the sample size as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,577 Views
23 Pages

BRAQUE: Bayesian Reduction for Amplified Quantization in UMAP Embedding

  • Lorenzo Dall’Olio,
  • Maddalena Bolognesi,
  • Simone Borghesi,
  • Giorgio Cattoretti and
  • Gastone Castellani

14 February 2023

Single-cell biology has revolutionized the way we understand biological processes. In this paper, we provide a more tailored approach to clustering and analyzing spatial single-cell data coming from immunofluorescence imaging techniques. We propose B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,618 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2023

This paper proposes an encryption scheme for high pixel density images. Based on the application of the quantum random walk algorithm, the long short-term memory (LSTM) can effectively solve the problem of low efficiency of the quantum random walk al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,977 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2023

Distributed quantum information processing protocols such as quantum entanglement distillation and quantum state discrimination rely on local operations and classical communications (LOCC). Existing LOCC-based protocols typically assume the availabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,044 Views
23 Pages

14 February 2023

The existence of the typical set is key for data compression strategies and for the emergence of robust statistical observables in macroscopic physical systems. Standard approaches derive its existence from a restricted set of dynamical constraints....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,227 Views
23 Pages

An Efficient Virtual Machine Consolidation Algorithm for Cloud Computing

  • Ling Yuan,
  • Zhenjiang Wang,
  • Ping Sun and
  • Yinzhen Wei

14 February 2023

With the rapid development of integration in blockchain and IoT, virtual machine consolidation (VMC) has become a heated topic because it can effectively improve the energy efficiency and service quality of cloud computing in the blockchain. The curr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,192 Views
26 Pages

Assessing Search and Unsupervised Clustering Algorithms in Nested Sampling

  • Lune Maillard,
  • Fabio Finocchi and
  • Martino Trassinelli

14 February 2023

Nested sampling is an efficient method for calculating Bayesian evidence in data analysis and partition functions of potential energies. It is based on an exploration using a dynamical set of sampling points that evolves to higher values of the sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,108 Views
47 Pages

13 February 2023

Community detection is an important and powerful way to understand the latent structure of complex networks in social network analysis. This paper considers the problem of estimating community memberships of nodes in a directed network, where a node...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,013 Views
21 Pages

13 February 2023

We extend techniques and learnings about the stochastic properties of nonlinear responses from finance to medicine, particularly oncology, where it can inform dosing and intervention. We define antifragility. We propose uses of risk analysis for medi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,914 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2023

In this paper, the Sun and its behavior are studied by means of complex networks. The complex network was built using the Visibility Graph algorithm. This method maps time series into graphs in which every element of the time series is considered as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,851 Views
14 Pages

A Complexity Science Account of Humor

  • Wolfgang Tschacher and
  • Hermann Haken

13 February 2023

A common assumption of psychological theories of humor is that experienced funniness results from an incongruity between stimuli provided by a verbal joke or visual pun, followed by a sudden, surprising resolution of incongruity. In the perspective o...

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