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Multi-Information in the Thermodynamic Limit
Ionas Erb, Nihat Ay
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Journal of Statistical Physics 115 (3-4), 949-976 (2004)
Abstract
From information theory, mutual information is known to measure stochastic interdependence of probability distributions with two subsystems. We use a generalised version of this measure: multi-information, the Kullback-Leibler distance of a distribution from its corresponding independent distribution, and give a definition within the framework of statistical mechanics. There, the theory of infinite-volume Gibbs measures allows for the description of phase coexistence: The interaction potential of a model can yield several Gibbs measures at the same time. We propose to take the least multi-information of all the translation-invariant Gibbs measures to define a quantity directly depending on the interaction potential. We show that it is enough to take this infimum over the pure, i.e. physically relevant states only. Our definition is applied to the two-dimensional Ising model and the main result is derived: In the Ising square lattice, multi-information as a function of temperature attains its isolated global maximum at the point of phase transition. There, the one-sided derivatives diverge. Finally, we also briefly discuss the behaviour for the one-dimensional Ising chain in a magnetic field.