Limitation on entropy increase imposed by Fisher information
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 49 (6) , 4815-4820
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.49.4815
Abstract
Consider a system obeying conservation of flow, as in classical particle flow or in relativistic quantum mechanics. In such cases a probability density function p(r‖t) may be used to describe the system, where r is particle position and t is time. Let H(t) be the Shannon form of the Boltzmann entropy corresponding to p(r‖t). It is found that (dH/dt=1/6I(t)d/dt〈(t)〉, where I(t) is the Fisher information about the centroid of the system, and 〈(t)〉 is the time-dependent mean-square particle position. A corollary is that, for classical particle flow obeying 〈r〉=0, positional uncertainty σ(t) must ever increase with time.
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