We show that effective masses in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics arise in a natural fashion from the Frieden and Soffer's Principle of Extremal Information (EPI) when the mean values of operators involving the momentum p̂ and exhibiting the form p̂f(x̂)p̂ are included as constraints. A...

It has been well-known since the pioneering work of Claude Shannon in the 1940s that a message transmitted with optimal efficiency over a channel of limited bandwidth is indistinguishable from random noise to a receiver who is unfamiliar with the language in which the message is written. In this...

A detailed mathematical analysis of the collective of accessible micro-states compatible with a given set of a priori fixed expectation values (generalized ensemble) is undertaken. To such an effect, the problem of quantum inference is framed as an under-determined linear problem. The analysis...

Given a set of non-commuting operators Ô1,…,ÔN, and the assumed knowledge of the expectation values of a subset containing just M of them, we discuss, in quite general terms, what can be predicted about the behaviour of the expectation values of the remaining operators when the concomitant...