Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-10-12
Physica A 391, 62-77 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
13 pages, an extended version of talks given at MECO 35 and at 11-th Granada seminar on Statistical Physics; final version wit
Scientific paper
We present a possible approach to the study of the renormalization group (RG) flow based entirely on the information theory. The average information loss under a single step of Wilsonian RG transformation is evaluated as a conditional entropy of the fast variables, which are integrated out, when the slow ones are held fixed. Its positivity results in the monotonic decrease of the informational entropy under renormalization. This, however, does not necessarily imply the irreversibility of the RG flow, because the entropy explicitly depends on the total number of degrees of freedom, which is reduced. Only some size-independent additive part of the entropy could possibly provide the required Lyapunov function. We also introduce a mutual information of fast and slow variables as probably a more adequate quantity to represent the changes in the system under renormalization and evaluate it for some simple systems. It is shown that for certain real space decimation transformations the positivity of the mutual information directly leads to the monotonic growth of the entropy per lattice site along the RG flow and hence to its irreversibility.
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