Escort distributions are a well established but (for physicists) a relatively new concept that is rapidly gaining wide acceptance in world. In this work we wish to revisit the concept within the strictures of the celebrated semiclassical Husimi distributions (HDs) and thereby investigate the...

In 1948 Shannon advanced information theory (IT) as a new branch of mathematics and a powerful tool for understanding the intricacies of the communication process. Nine years later Jaynes’ conceived the maximum entropy principle and was able to shed with it much light onto statistical...

Fourteen years ago John Archibald Wheeler launched his “it from bit” project to try and derive physics from information theory. We advance here a conceptual framework for this Wheeler program (WP), and summarize some recent progress with reference to different aspects of the role that...