Macroscopic Observables, Thermodynamic Completeness and the Differentiability of Entropy
Mathematical Physics
2019-03-27 v1 Statistical Mechanics
math.MP
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We provide a quantum statistical basis for (a)a characterisation of a complete set of thermodynamic variables and (b) the differentiability of the entropy function of these variables
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.09341,
title = {Macroscopic Observables, Thermodynamic Completeness and the Differentiability of Entropy},
author = {Geoffrey L. Sewell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09341},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
To be published in "Reports on Mathematical Physics"