Date of Award

5-1-2022

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Physics

Content Description

1 online resource (xii, 140 pages) : color illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Ariel Caticha

Committee Members

Carlo Cafaro, Oleg Lunin, Daniel Robbins, Herbert Fotso

Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensation, Dynamical systems, Maximum entropy, Network science, Dynamics, Maximum entropy method, Statistical physics

Subject Categories

Physics | Radiochemistry

Abstract

The present thesis deals with different aspects of probability, the method of maximum entropy, information geometry, and dynamical systems and their applications to statistical physics and complex systems. Those topics come together in the framework for dynamics termed entropic dynamics. Work on the topic was initiated by my PhD advisor Professor Ariel Caticha and many colleagues at University at Albany as a method for explaining the dynamical processes in quantum mechanics from first principles of probability theory.

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