Entropy

Entropy in Quantum Systems and Quantum Field Theory (QFT): Gravity, 3rd Edition

edited by

submission deadline 8 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2700

Keywords: quantum open systems and nonequilibrium quantum field theory; quantum fields background and particle creation; dissipative dynamics in QM and QFT; quantum entropies; noise; and fluctuations; coherence and decoherence in quantum systems; entanglement entropy in quantum field theory; nonequilibrium quantum processes in the early universe; Bekenstein-Hawking entropy; Ryu– Takayanagi entropy; holographic approaches; space time thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

25 Years of Sample Entropy

edited by J Randall Moorman and

Joshua Richman

submission deadline 9 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2783 | Submission Open

Keywords: Shannon entropy; Kolmogorov– Sinai entropy; information theory; time series complexity; cross-entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Coding for Aeronautical Telemetry

edited by

Michael Rice

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5590 | Submission Open

Keywords: aeronautical mobile telemetry; error control coding; forward error correcting codes; physical layer security codes; space– time coding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Black Hole Information Problem: Challenges and Perspectives

edited by Qingyu Cai, Baocheng Zhang and

Christian Corda

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4863 | Submission Open

Keywords: black hole information paradox; Hawking radiation; page curve; quantum decoherence; AdS/CFT correspondence; holography; firewall; soft hair; quantum hair; memory of black holes; quantum error correction; quantum information theory; quantum final state projection; remnants; baby universe; wormholes; quantum tunneling; black hole interior; black hole volume; black hole collapse and evaporation; two-dimensional black holes; three-dimensional black holes; quantum gravity theory; analogue gravity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)

Quantum Information: Working Towards Applications

edited by

Guilu Long

, Kai Wen, Min Wang and Hai Wei

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 18474 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; quantum computing; quantum communication; quantum sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions

edited by Susan M. Clark and Phil Richerme

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6173 | Submission Open

Keywords: ion; quantum computing; quantum simulation; gate implementations; shuttling; noise mitigation; calibration; qudits; metastable states; bosonic degrees of freedom; open-system quantum dynamics; coherent operations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Risk Spillover and Transfer Entropy in Complex Financial Networks

edited by Longfeng Zhao,

Gang-Jin Wang

, Chun-Xiao Nie and Lin Chen

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4707 | Submission Open

Keywords: risk spillover; systemic risk; complex financial networks; transfer entropy; interconnectedness; interdependencies; financial stability; risk management; regulatory policies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Information Hiding and Secret Sharing for New Carriers and Their Security Evaluation Methods

edited by

Xuehu Yan

and

Peng Li

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3250 | Submission Open

Keywords: information hiding; secret image sharing; AI security; multimedia security; barcode

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Entropy: From Atoms to Complex Systems

edited by

Caroline Desgranges

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2933 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; entropy production; machine learning; Monte Carlo; molecular dynamics; fluctuation theorems; thermodynamics; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Aspects of Social Dynamics: Models and Concepts

edited by

Nikolay K. Vitanov

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3643 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical models; social systems; statistical physics; thermodynamics; mathematical biology; mathematical sociology; nonlinear dynamics; game theory; time series analysis; theory of networks; social sciences; animal societies; human societies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy Production in Partially Observed Systems

edited by Aishani Ghosal and

Carlos Mejía-Monasterio

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 347 | Submission Open

Keywords: dissipation estimation for partially observed systems; modeling partially observed systems; fluctuation theorem for systems with hidden degrees of freedom

(This special issue belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)

Complexity in Financial Networks

edited by

Shupei Huang

, Brian Lucey, Xueyong Liu and Xinya Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15451 | Submission Open

Keywords: financial network analysis; information spillover in financial systems; multilayer networks in finance; uncertainties in financial network

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy-Based Applications in Sociophysics II

edited by

Marcel Ausloos

and

Francisco W. De Sousa Lima

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8913 | Submission Open

Keywords: opinion dynamics; votes; consensus; econophysics; networks; based agents models; phase transitions; equilibrium and non-equilibrium concepts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Entropy, Artificial Intelligence and the Financial Markets

edited by

Gil Cohen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6170 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI and financial innovations; AI and business information; AI and trading; AI and market forecasts; AI and risk analysis; AI and fintech; AI real estate information and pricing; AI and technical analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Coding and Algorithms for DNA-Based Data Storage Systems

edited by Olgiça Milenković and Jin Sima

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4931 | Submission Open

Keywords: coding theory; computational biology; DNA-based data storage; DNA synthesis and sequencing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Information Theoretic Learning with Its Applications

edited by

Isidoros Perikos

,

Christos Makris

, Vasileios Megalooikonomou and

Sotiris Kotsiantis

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2639 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; data science; supervised learning; unsupervised learning; data analysis techniques; machine learning applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Entropy Based Machine Learning Models

edited by

David Dominguez

and

Mario González-Rodríguez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2427 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; entropy; mutual information; neural networks; Bayesian models; statistical mechanics; stochastic dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Gaussian Fields and Their Application in Computational Engineering and Mathematical Physics

edited by

Robertas Alzbutas

, Mark Girolami and

Hussein Rappel

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1984 | Submission Open

Keywords: Gaussian fields; probabilistic modeling; Bayesian inference; forecasting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Classical and Quantum Networks: Theory, Modeling and Optimization, 2nd Edition

edited by

Avishy Carmi

and

Eliahu Cohen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 885 | Submission Open

Keywords: network dynamics; network topology; complex networks; percolation; quantum entanglement; quantum correlations; quantum interconnect; quantum walks; quantum key distribution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Uncertainty Quantification and Entropy Analysis

edited by

Marcin Kamiński

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 690 | Submission Open

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; stochastic perturbation method; semi-analytical approaches; Bayesian methods; polynomial chaos expansion; reliability assessment; durability prediction; probabilistic entropy; probabilistic distance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Advances in Entropy and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jorge Arturo Alfaro-Ayala

and

José de Jesús Ramírez-Minguela

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 604 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and CFD in laminar and turbulent flows; entropy generation rate by fluid flow and heat/mass transfer processes; entropy generation rate in multiphase flows; entropy generation rate in chemically reactive flows; optimization with the second law of thermodynamics and CFD; entropy generation rate in biological and physiological flows; entropy generation rate in nano- and micro-fluid flows; entropy and CFD in thermal equipment; such as fuel cells; solar collectors; heat exchangers; combustors; ovens; refrigeration cabins; etc.; entropy and CFD in devices used to generate energy; such as horizontal/vertical wind turbines; gas/vapor turbines; etc.; entropy and CFD in other equipment; such as compressors; blowers; stirred tanks; etc.; entropy and CFD in biological tissues; such as aorta; veins; heart; etc.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Emerging Chaos Generation Methods and Memory Elements in Cryptographic Systems: An Entropy and Information Theory Perspective

edited by

Suo Gao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 582 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy in chaos-based systems; information-theoretic security; memristors; meminductors; and memcapacitors in cryptography; high-entropy pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs); chaos-based secure communication; entropy optimization in nonlinear dynamical systems; machine learning for chaos and entropy evaluation; post-quantum cryptography using entropy-driven methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Interfacing with Quantum Information Processors—Readout and Control

edited by Benjamin Lienhard and N. Anders Petersson

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 570 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information processing; quantum processor characterization; quantum processor calibration; quantum control; quantum measurement; quantum error mitigation; quantum error suppression; quantum error correction; machine learning for quantum computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

SUURI of Information Geometry: Dedicated to SUURI Engineer Professor Shun’ichi Amari on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday

edited by

Antonio M. Scarfone

and

Tatsuaki Wada

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 325 | Submission Open

Keywords: information geometry; α -geometry; information theory; machine learning; neural network; statistics inference; geometro-thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy Application in Biomechanics

edited by

Li Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 246 | Submission Open

Keywords: approximate entropy; balance; biomechanics; complexity; correlation entropy; electromyography; ergonomics; geometric entropy; Hilbert– Huang marginal spectrum entropy; injury risks; mobility (gait; walking; and running); movement control; multiscale entropy; muscle contraction; nonlinear analysis; permutation entropy; postural control; sample entropy; Shannon entropy; sports; stability; variability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)

Mathematical Modeling for Ion Channels

edited by

Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open

Keywords: ion channels; channel gating; patch clamp; statistical physics; applied mathematics; phenomenological models; Brownian dynamics; entropic potential; molecular dynamics; mechanism of selectivity; activation of gate-selectivity filter coupling; ion channel permeation mechanism; conformational dynamics; allosteric coupling; ionic currents through biological membranes; biomimetic channels; nanopores; rectification; time series analysis; information entropy; Shannon entropy; sample entropy; multiscale entropy; slope entropy; entropic effects of channel gating

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics in Astrophysics

edited by

Jiulin Du

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasma astrophysics with non-Maxwell distributions; astrophysical plasma and space plasma; planetary plasmas; transport theory in astrophysics; gravitational waves; self-gravitating systems; solar and stellar physics; galactic dynamics; dark matter; dark energy; cosmology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)

Editorial Board Members' Collection Series on Quantum Entanglement

edited by

Xiang-Bin Wang

,

Richard D. Gill

, Francesco De Martini,

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,

,

and

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9199 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum entanglement; quantum key distribution; quantum communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Mechanics and the Challenge of Time

edited by

Eli Pollak

and Randall S. Dumont

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7634 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Time)

The Statistical Physics of Generative Diffusion Models

edited by Luca Ambrogioni

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6230 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative diffusion models; generative models; statistical physics; equilibrium thermodynamics; symmetry breaking; phase transition; stochastic localization; Hopfield networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information Theory in Emerging Machine Learning Techniques

edited by Ke Sun

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4032 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; information theory; information divergence; Riemannian geometry; Fisher information; information bottleneck; deep autoencoders; normalization in deep learning; deep neural network optimizers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Information Theory and Data Compression

edited by Tsachy Weissman

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1215 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; data compression (lossless and lossy); compression complexity; source coding; coding theory; distortion; point clouds

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Advances in Federated and Collaborative Learning with Applications for Generative AI

edited by Chee Wei Tan and Wenyi Zhang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and perplexity; model interpretation and representation learning; federated learning and collaborative learning; machine unlearning; in-context learning; distributed optimization; large language models; AI safety; data removal algorithms; AI-generated data detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Next-Generation Channel Coding: Theory and Applications

edited by

Min Qiu

,

Xiaowei Wu

,

Peng Kang

and Jinhong Yuan

submission deadline 19 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 996 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; turbo codes; polar codes; coded modulations; spatially coupled codes; coding hardware architectures; learning-based coding schemes; rateless codes; joint source– channel coding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Entropy Metrics for Interpretable Condition Monitoring in Complex Industrial Equipment

edited by

Tao Xie

,

Xiaojun Mei

and

Chaoge Wang

submission deadline 19 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 706 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy-based condition monitoring; interpretable feature extraction; fault diagnosis; rotating machinery; data-driven diagnostics; predictive maintenance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks

edited by

Duanbing Chen

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2215 | Submission Open

Keywords: information spreading; complex networks; temporal networks; resilient and recoverable networks; simplicial complex; influential spreaders; phase transition; network attack and defense; collaborative evolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Causal Inference in Statistics and AI

edited by Jalal Etesami and

Wray L. Buntine

submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 362 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal discovery; causal effect estimation and counterfactual inference; causal representation learning; high-dimensional causal inference; fairness; transparency; and explainability in AI; time-series and dynamic causal inference; statistical aspects of causal inference; sensitivity analysis and robustness in causal models; foundational theories of causal inference; applications in healthcare; economics; and AI; information theoretic approaches; Granger causality; transfer entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Lie Group Machine Learning

edited by

Fanzhang Li

and Li Liu

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2894 | Submission Open

Keywords: Lie group algebraic learning; Lie group geometric learning; Lie group cover learning; Lie group meta learning; Lie group continual learning; Lie group reinforcement learning; Lie group neural network learning; Lie group Bayesian learning; symplectic group learning; quantum group learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

edited by Zhian Jia and Dagomir Kaszlikowski

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; quantum games; generalized probabilistic theory; quantum computation; quantum algorithm; quantum simulation; quantum metrology; quantum entanglement; steering; and nonlocality; quantum contextuality; topological quantum information; quantum error correction; quantum memory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks

edited by

Lazaros Gallos

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9184 | Submission Open

Keywords: epidemic spreading; network science; network dynamics; information spreading; social network analysis; computational modeling; infectious disease modeling; percolation theory; machine learning in complex networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

The First Half Century of Finite-Time Thermodynamics

edited by

Bjarne Andresen

and

Peter Salamon

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 6259 | Submission Open

Keywords: finite-time thermodynamics; thermodynamic geometry; control thermodynamics; optimization; thermodynamic bounds; optimal control modeling; efficiency; wide range of applicability of the concepts in chemistry; physics; quantum; engineering; economics; biology; etc.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Network Information Theory and Its Applications

edited by

Yanlin Geng

, Youlong Wu and Ling Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6031 | Submission Open

Keywords: network information theory; capacity region; Gaussian noise; information inequality; distributed system; federated learning; channel coding; source coding; randomness generation; integrated sensing and communication; coded caching and computing; communication for computing; network coding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Side-Channel Analysis

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5660 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; side-channel analysis; attacks; bounds; countermeasures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Advances in Modern Channel Coding

edited by Yongpeng Wu and Peihong Yuan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5007 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; turbo codes; polar coding; probabilistic shaping; coded modulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

From Order to Disorder: Superfluidity, Stochastic Processes, and the Dynamics of Life—Dedicated to Professor Peter McClintock on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday

edited by Aneta Stefanovska, Philip C.E. Stamp,

Mark Dykman

,

Laszlo B. Kish

and Ladislav Skrbek

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4265 | Submission Open

Keywords: superfluid vortices and turbulence; quantum and classical fluctuations; wave turbulence; vortex nucleation and effective mass; 2D superfluids and Kosterlitz– Thouless physics; dissipation in quantum systems; rare events in stochastic processes; quantum turbulence and cavitation; entropy production in nonequilibrium systems; deterministic and stochastic dynamics; biological dynamics and multiscale interactions; interactions and couplings in dynamical systems; biological and artificial ion channels; physics of life; biological oscillators; stochastic resonance; vibrational resonance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Kinetic Models of Chemical Reactions

edited by

Gregory Yablonsky

and

Alexander N. Gorban

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3145 | Submission Open

Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis; chemical kinetics; complexity in chemical kinetics; graph theory in chemical kinetics; chemical kinetics and thermodynamics; non-steady-state chemical kinetics; chemical relaxation; temporal analysis of products (TAP); non-linearity in chemical kinetics; critical phenomena in chemical kinetics; oscillations and multiplicity in chemistry; catalyst deactivation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

edited by Ting Yu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2647 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-Markovian open quantum systems; non-Markovian dynamics; non-Markovian quantum transport; environmental memory effect; quantum control; quantum technology; quantum devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning

edited by Sanghamitra Dutta and

Syed A. Jafar

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1735 | Submission Open

Keywords: fairness; explainability; reliability; privacy; security; robustness

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Probability Theory and Quantum Information

edited by Bin Yan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 973 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; probability theory; quantum probabilities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Coarse and Fine-Grained Aspects of Gravitational Entropy

edited by Juan F. Pedraza, Andrew Svesko and Manus R. Visser

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 935 | Submission Open

Keywords: gravitational entropy; black hole thermodynamics; entanglement entropy; entropy in holography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)

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