Information Geometry, One, Two, Three (and Four)

Details Information Geometry, One, Two, Three (and Four) Information Geometry, One, Two, Three (and Four)

2003-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308316v1

Acta Phys.Polon. B34 (2003) 4923-4937

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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Although the notion of entropy lies at the core of statistical mechanics, it is not often used in statistical mechanical models to characterize phase transitions, a role more usually played by quantities such as various order parameters, specific heats or suscept ibilities. The relative entropy induces a metric, the so-called information or Fisher-Rao m etric, on the space of parameters and the geometrical invariants of this metric carry information about the phase structure of the model. In various models the scalar curvature, ${\cal R}$, of the information metric has been found to diverge at the phase transition point and a plausible scaling relation postulated. For spin models the necessity of calculating in non-zero field has limited analytic consideration to one-dimensional, mean-field and Bethe lattice Ising models. We report on previous papers in which we extended the list somewhat in the current note by considering the {\it one}-dime nsional Potts model, the {\it two}-dimensional Ising model coupled to two-dimensional quantum gravity and the {\it three}-dimensional spherical model. We note that similar ideas have been ap plied to elucidate possible critical behaviour in families of black hole solutions in {\it four} space-time dimensions.

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