Misanthropic Entropy and Renormalization as a Communication Channel

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02772v2
• Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:48:38 GMT
• Title: Misanthropic Entropy and Renormalization as a Communication Channel
• Authors: Ram\'on Fowler and Jonathan J. Heckman
• Abstract summary: A central physical question is the extent to which infrared (IR) observations are sufficient to reconstruct a candidate ultraviolet (UV) completion. We recast this question as a problem of communication, with messages encoded in field configurations of the UV being transmitted to the IR degrees of freedom. We show that the "misanthropic entropy" encodes the extent to which information is lost in marginalizing over / tracing out UV degrees of freedom.
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• Abstract: A central physical question is the extent to which infrared (IR) observations are sufficient to reconstruct a candidate ultraviolet (UV) completion. We recast this question as a problem of communication, with messages encoded in field configurations of the UV being transmitted to the IR degrees of freedom via a noisy channel specified by renormalization group (RG) flow, with noise generated by coarse graining / decimation. We present an explicit formulation of these considerations in terms of lattice field theory, where we show that the "misanthropic entropy" -- the mutual information obtained from decimating neighbors -- encodes the extent to which information is lost in marginalizing over / tracing out UV degrees of freedom. Our considerations apply both to statistical field theories as well as density matrix renormalization of quantum systems, where in the quantum case, the statistical field theory analysis amounts to a leading order approximation. As a concrete example, we focus on the case of the 2D Ising model, where we show that the misanthropic entropy detects the onset of the phase transition at the Ising model critical point.

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