scholarly journals Thermodynamic Analysis of Time Evolving Networks

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Ye ◽  
Richard Wilson ◽  
Luca Rossi ◽  
Andrea Torsello ◽  
Edwin Hancock

The problem of how to represent networks, and from this representation, derive succinct characterizations of network structure and in particular how this structure evolves with time, is of central importance in complex network analysis. This paper tackles the problem by proposing a thermodynamic framework to represent the structure of time-varying complex networks. More importantly, such a framework provides a powerful tool for better understanding the network time evolution. Specifically, the method uses a recently-developed approximation of the network von Neumann entropy and interprets it as the thermodynamic entropy for networks. With an appropriately-defined internal energy in hand, the temperature between networks at consecutive time points can be readily derived, which is computed as the ratio of change of entropy and change in energy. It is critical to emphasize that one of the main advantages of the proposed method is that all these thermodynamic variables can be computed in terms of simple network statistics, such as network size and degree statistics. To demonstrate the usefulness of the thermodynamic framework, the paper uses real-world network data, which are extracted from time-evolving complex systems in the financial and biological domains. The experimental results successfully illustrate that critical events, including abrupt changes and distinct periods in the evolution of complex networks, can be effectively characterized.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios K. Karananas ◽  
Alex Kehagias ◽  
John Taskas

Abstract We derive a novel four-dimensional black hole with planar horizon that asymptotes to the linear dilaton background. The usual growth of its entanglement entropy before Page’s time is established. After that, emergent islands modify to a large extent the entropy, which becomes finite and is saturated by its Bekenstein-Hawking value in accordance with the finiteness of the von Neumann entropy of eternal black holes. We demonstrate that viewed from the string frame, our solution is the two-dimensional Witten black hole with two additional free bosons. We generalize our findings by considering a general class of linear dilaton black hole solutions at a generic point along the σ-model renormalization group (RG) equations. For those, we observe that the entanglement entropy is “running” i.e. it is changing along the RG flow with respect to the two-dimensional worldsheet length scale. At any fixed moment before Page’s time the aforementioned entropy increases towards the infrared (IR) domain, whereas the presence of islands leads the running entropy to decrease towards the IR at later times. Finally, we present a four-dimensional charged black hole that asymptotes to the linear dilaton background as well. We compute the associated entanglement entropy for the extremal case and we find that an island is needed in order for it to follow the Page curve.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1342030 ◽  
Author(s):  
KYRIAKOS PAPADODIMAS ◽  
SUVRAT RAJU

We point out that nonperturbative effects in quantum gravity are sufficient to reconcile the process of black hole evaporation with quantum mechanics. In ordinary processes, these corrections are unimportant because they are suppressed by e-S. However, they gain relevance in information-theoretic considerations because their small size is offset by the corresponding largeness of the Hilbert space. In particular, we show how such corrections can cause the von Neumann entropy of the emitted Hawking quanta to decrease after the Page time, without modifying the thermal nature of each emitted quantum. Second, we show that exponentially suppressed commutators between operators inside and outside the black hole are sufficient to resolve paradoxes associated with the strong subadditivity of entropy without any dramatic modifications of the geometry near the horizon.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (16) ◽  
pp. 1530039 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Obregón

A nonextensive statistical mechanics entropy that depends only on the probability distribution is proposed in the framework of superstatistics. It is based on a Γ(χ2) distribution that depends on β and also on pl. The corresponding modified von Neumann entropy is constructed; it is shown that it can also be obtained from a generalized Replica trick. We further demonstrate a generalized H-theorem. Considering the entropy as a function of the temperature and volume, it is possible to generalize the equation of state of an ideal gas. Moreover, following the entropic force formulation a generalized Newton's law is obtained, and following the proposal that the Einstein equations can be deduced from the Clausius law, we discuss on the structure that a generalized Einstein's theory would have. Lastly, we address the question whether the generalized entanglement entropy can play a role in the gauge/gravity duality. We pay attention to 2d CFT and their gravity duals. The correction terms to the von Neumann entropy result more relevant than the usual UV ones and also than those due to the area dependent AdS3 entropy which result comparable to the UV ones. Then the correction terms due to the new entropy would modify the Ryu–Takayanagi identification between the CFT entanglement entropy and the AdS entropy in a different manner than the UV ones or than the corrections to the AdS3 area dependent entropy.


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