Application of the maximum relative entropy method to the physics of ferromagnetic materials

Adom Giffin, Carlo Cafaro and Sean Alan Ali

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 455, issue C, 11-26

Abstract: It is known that the Maximum relative Entropy (MrE) method can be used to both update and approximate probability distributions functions in statistical inference problems. In this manuscript, we apply the MrE method to infer magnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials. In addition to comparing our approach to more traditional methodologies based upon the Ising model and Mean Field Theory, we also test the effectiveness of the MrE method on conventionally unexplored ferromagnetic materials with defects.

Keywords: Entropy; Probability theory; Statistical mechanics of model systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.02.069

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