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Emergence and Breaking of Duality Symmetry in Generalized Fundamental Thermodynamic Relations

Statistical Mechanics 2022-09-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Thermodynamics as limiting behaviors of statistics is generalized to arbitrary system with probability {\it a priori} where thermodynamic infinite-size limit is replaced by multiple-measurement limit. A duality symmetry between Massieu's and Gibbs' entropy arises in the limit of infinitely repeated observations, yielding the Gibbs equation and Hill-Gibbs-Duhem equation (HGDE) as dual pair. If a system has thermodynamic limit satisfying Callen's postulate, entropy being an Eulerian function, the symmetry is lost: the HGDE reduces to the Gibbs-Duhem equation. This theory provides a de-mechanized foundation for classical and nanothermodynamics and offers a framework for distilling emergence from large data, free from underlying details.

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@article{arxiv.2009.12644,
  title  = {Emergence and Breaking of Duality Symmetry in Generalized Fundamental Thermodynamic Relations},
  author = {Zhiyue Lu and Hong Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12644},
  year   = {2022}
}

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