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concept:energy-barrier-energy-humpEnergy Barrier (Energy Hump)
The minimum energy required to transition a molecule from one stable isomeric state to another.
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- Molecular Stabilityassociated_withThe resistance of a molecule to change configuration without external energy input, explained by quantum mechanics.
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- A foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
- A key decomposition presented in Section 7.
- KL divergence between predicted and preferred final states or outcomes.
- How the energy gain ΔE scales with perimeter length P; used to assess ordered phase existence
- Thermodynamic potential ΔF = ΔE − TΔS; domain walls form if ΔF < 0
- Discrete states of a quantum system; transitions between them require specific energy amounts.
- Expected entropy of outcomes given states; resolved by selecting states that yield unambiguous outcomes.