Thursday, December 20, 2012

1212.4644 (Ulrich Müller et al.)

Mutual Information as a Two-Point Correlation Function in Stochastic
Lattice Models
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Ulrich Müller, Haye Hinrichsen
In statistical physics entropy is usually introduced as a global quantity which expresses the amount of information that would be needed to specify the microscopic configuration of a system. However, for lattice models with infinitely many possible configurations per lattice site it is also meaningful to introduce entropy as a local observable that describes the information content of a single lattice site. Likewise, the mutual information can be interpreted as a two-point correlation function. Studying a particular growth model we demonstrate that the mutual information exhibits scaling properties that are consistent with the established phenomenological scaling picture.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4644

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