How much information can one store in a nonequilibrium medium?

DOI10.1063/1.1784571MaRDI QIDQ5705442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. Toniolo, Charles Tresser, P. Coullet

Publication date 8 November 2005

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0503011

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

Abstract: It has recently been emphasized again that the very existence of stationary stable localized structures with short range interactions might allow to store information in non-equilibrium media, opening new perspectives on information storage. We show how to use generalized topological entropies to measure aspects of the quantities of storable and non-storable information. This leads us to introduce a measure of the long term stably storable information. As a first example to illustrate these concepts, we revisit a mechanism for the appearance of stationary stable localized structures that is related to the stabilization of fronts between structured and unstructured states (or between differently structured states).

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