Time Evolution of Relative Entropies for Anomalous Diffusion
Time Evolution of Relative Entropies for Anomalous Diffusion
复制标题
DOI:
10.3390/e15082989
复制
发表时间:
2013-08-01
期刊:
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Hoffmann, Karl Heinz
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Prehl, Janett;Boldt, Frank;Hoffmann, Karl Heinz
The entropy production paradox for anomalous diffusion processes describes a phenomenon where one-parameter families of dynamical equations, falling between the diffusion and wave equations, have entropy production rates (Shannon, Tsallis or Renyi) that increase toward the wave equation limit unexpectedly. Moreover, also surprisingly, the entropy does not order the bridging regime between diffusion and waves at all. However, it has been found that relative entropies, with an appropriately chosen reference distribution, do. Relative entropies, thus, provide a physically sensible way of setting which process is "nearer" to pure diffusion than another, placing pure wave propagation, desirably, "furthest" from pure diffusion. We examine here the time behavior of the relative entropies under the evolution dynamics of the underlying one-parameter family of dynamical equations based on space-fractional derivatives.