How much information can one store in a nonequilibrium medium?

DOI10.1063/1.1784571zbMATH Open1080.37098arXivnlin/0503011OpenAlexW3105846405WikidataQ51988386 ScholiaQ51988386MaRDI QIDQ5705442FDOQ5705442

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)

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).

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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