25 June 2026
Entropy Best Paper Award—Winners Announced
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Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300) is pleased to announce the winners of the Entropy Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2024 in Entropy were considered, and after a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, five winners were selected.
Prize:
We would like to congratulate the following winners:
“Efficient Implementation of Discrete-Time Quantum Walks on Quantum Computers”
by Luca Razzoli, Gabriele Cenedese, Maria Bondani and Giuliano Benenti
Entropy 2024, 26(4), 313; https://doi.org/10.3390/e26040313
“On the Accurate Estimation of Information-Theoretic Quantities from Multi-Dimensional Sample Data”
by Manuel Álvarez Chaves, Hoshin V. Gupta, Uwe Ehret and Anneli Guthke
Entropy 2024, 26(5), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/e26050387
“Kinetic Theory of Self-Propelled Particles with Nematic Alignment”
by Horst-Holger Boltz, Benjamin Kohler and Thomas Ihle
Entropy 2024, 26(12), 1054; https://doi.org/10.3390/e26121054
“Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection”
by Christopher L. Buckley, Tim Lewens, Michael Levin, Beren Millidge, Alexander Tschantz and Richard A. Watson
Entropy 2024, 26(9), 765; https://doi.org/10.3390/e26090765
“To Compress or Not to Compress—Self-Supervised Learning and Information Theory: A Review”
by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Yann LeCun
Entropy 2024, 26(3), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/e26030252
The announcement of the winners can be found on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/awards/3580.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Entropy Best Paper Award. We would also like to thank all of our authors for their continued support.
Entropy Editorial Office