The development of methods for time series analysis and prediction has always been and continues to be an active area of research. In this work, we develop a technique for modelling chaotic time series in parametric fashion. In the case of tonic-clonic epileptic electroencephalographic (EEG) analysis, we show that appropriate information theory tools provide valuable insights into the dynamics of neural activity. Our purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility of the maximum entropy principle to anticipate tonic-clonic seizure in patients with epilepsy.
Beginning with Mandelbrot’s insight that Fisher information may admit a thermodynamic interpretation, a growing body of work has connected this information-theoretic measure to fluctuation–dissipation relations, thermodynamic geometry, and phase transitions. Yet, these connections have largely remained at the level of formal analogies. In this work, we provide what is, to our knowledge, the first explicit realization of the epistemic-to-physical transition of Fisher information within a finite interacting quantum system. Specifically, we analyze a model of N fermions occupying two degenerate levels and coupled by a spin-flip interaction of strength V, treated in the grand canonical ensemble at inverse temperature . We compute the Fisher information associated with the sensitivity of the thermal state to changes in V, and show that it becomes an observer-independent, experimentally meaningful quantity: it encodes fluctuations, tracks entropy variations, and reveals structural transitions induced by interactions. Our findings thus demonstrate that Fisher information, originally conceived as an inferential and epistemic measure, can operate as a bona fide thermodynamic observable in quantum many-body physics, bridging the gap between information-theoretic foundations and measurable physical law.
18 March 2015 in Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones
In this paper an Adaptive Wavelet-Galerkin method for the solution of parabolic partial differential equations modeling physical problems with different spatial and temporal scales is developed. A semi-implicit time difference scheme is applied and B-spline multiresolution structure on the interval is used. As in many cases these solutions are known to present localized sharp gradients, local error estimators are designed and an efficient adaptive strategy to choose the appropriate scale for each time is developed. Finally, experiments were performed to illustrate the applicability and efficiency of the proposed method.
We provide an information-geometric framework that displays entropic slaving so as to characterize collective fermionic many-body features at finite temperatures. It posits that the statistical reorganization driving a many-body system toward highly correlated macroscopic configurations---such as fully Cooper-paired states---simultaneously restricts the statistical distinguishability of independent thermodynamic control parameters. This document details the mathematical formulation of this hypothesis utilizing the two-parameter Fisher information metric in a Lipkin-like SU2 model. In particular, it is shown that temperature can generate some kind of order in a quantum many body system. While the concept of entropic slaving has traditionally been confined to the phenomenology of complex biomolecular environments, we demonstrate that this behavior can indeed emerge as a fundamental property within closed quantum many-body systems stripped of biochemical specificity.
Beginning with Mandelbrot’s insight that Fisher information may admit a thermodynamic interpretation, a growing body of work has connected this information-theoretic measure to fluctuation– dissipation relations, thermodynamic geometry, and phase transitions. Yet, these connections have largely remained at the level of formal analogies. In this work, we provide what is, to our knowledge, the first explicit realization of the epistemic-to-physical transition of Fisher information within a finite interacting quantum system. Specifically, we analyze a model of N fermions occupying two degenerate levels and coupled by a spin-flip interaction of strength V, treated in the grand canonical ensemble at inverse temperature β. We compute the Fisher information FN(V) associated with the sensitivity of the thermal state to changes in V, and show that it becomes an observer-independent, experimentally meaningful quantity: it encodes fluctuations, tracks entropy variations, and reveals structural transitions induced by interactions. Our findings thus demonstrate that Fisher information, originally conceived as an inferential and epistemic measure, can operate as a bona fide thermodynamic observable in quantum many-body physics, bridging the gap between information-theoretic foundations and measurable physical law.