Regularized Boltzmann entropy determines macroscopic adiabatic accessibility
Quantum Physics
2016-10-04 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
How the thermodynamic entropy is related to the Boltzmann entropy has been one of the central issues since the beginning of statistical mechanics. Today, it is believed that the thermodynamic entropy is equal to a function that is defined by regularizing the Boltzman entropy in order to ensure extensivity. However, it is not known whether completely determines the possibility of a macroscopic adiabatic transformation in the same way as does. In this paper, by formulating the possibility of a macroscopic adiabatic transformations in terms of "coarse-graining" of quantum operations, we prove that 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