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Regularized Boltzmann entropy determines macroscopic adiabatic accessibility

Quantum Physics 2016-10-04 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

How the thermodynamic entropy STDS_{TD} is related to the Boltzmann entropy SBS_{B} has been one of the central issues since the beginning of statistical mechanics. Today, it is believed that the thermodynamic entropy STDS_{TD} is equal to a function S~B\tilde{S}_{B} that is defined by regularizing the Boltzman entropy in order to ensure extensivity. However, it is not known whether S~B\tilde{S}_{B} completely determines the possibility of a macroscopic adiabatic transformation in the same way as STDS_{TD} does. In this paper, by formulating the possibility of a macroscopic adiabatic transformations in terms of "coarse-graining" of quantum operations, we prove that S~B\tilde{S}_{B} provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the possibility of a macroscopic adiabatic transformation.

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@article{arxiv.1601.00487,
  title  = {Regularized Boltzmann entropy determines macroscopic adiabatic accessibility},
  author = {Hiroyasu Tajima and Eyuri Wakakuwa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00487},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, 1 figures

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