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The paper examines and critiques the expression of entropy as the logarithm of the number of quantum states of a physical system. Boltzmann method of expressing entropy as the logarithm of the number of states of a gas with a given total…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Maria Polski , Vladimir Skrebnev

A mixture of relativistic gases of non-disparate rest masses in a Schwarzschild metric is studied on the basis of a relativistic Boltzmann equation in the presence of gravitational fields. A BGK-type model equation of the collision operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-15 Gilberto M. Kremer

Relativistic thermodynamics is treated from the point of view of kinetic theory. It is shown that the generalized J\"uttner distribution suggested in [1] is compatible with kinetic equilibrium. The requirement of compatibility of kinetic…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-06 P. Ván

We introduce variants of relative entropy of entanglement based on the optimal distinguishability from unentangled states by means of restricted measurements. In this way, we are able to prove that the standard regularized entropy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Piani

We propose an approach to the realization of many-body quantum state distributions inspired by combined principles of thermodynamics and mesoscopic physics. Its essence is a maximum entropy principle conditioned by conservation laws. We go…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Alexander Altland , David A. Huse , Tobias Micklitz

Quantum physics, despite its observables being intrinsically of a probabilistic nature, does not have a quantum entropy assigned to them. We propose a quantum entropy that quantify the randomness of a pure quantum state via a conjugate pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

In this paper we apply the entropy principle to the relativistic version of the differential equations describing a standard fluid flow, that is, the equations for mass, momentum, and a system for the energy matrix. These are the second…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Hans Wilhelm Alt

In two previous papers, the author raised the possibility of a special relativistic Liouville equation. The conclusion then was yes, such an equation is possible in 8N phase space if a Lorentz-invariant Universal (LiU) time can be defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-20 Jose A. Magpantay

By refining the method proposed in arXiv:2010.07660, entropy current and entropy density for a relativistic hydrostatic equilibrium system with spherical symmetry are constructed as a non-Noether conserved charge in the Einstein gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Shuichi Yokoyama

We derive the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for Maxwellian molecules from a natural stochastic interacting particle system. More precisely, we control the relative entropy between the joint law of the particle system and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 José Antonio Carrillo , Xuanrui Feng , Shuchen Guo , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Zhenfu Wang

In quantum statistical mechanics, it is of fundamental interest to understand how close the bipartite entanglement entropy of eigenstates of quantum chaotic Hamiltonians is to maximal. For random pure states in the Hilbert space, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-30 Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

We consider a two-dimensional Lorentz gas with infinite horizon. This paradigmatic model consists of pointlike particles undergoing elastic collisions with fixed scatterers arranged on a periodic lattice. It was rigorously shown that when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-18 L. Zarfaty , A. Peletskyi , I. Fouxon , S. Denisov , E. Barkai

We obtain formulas for Petz-R\'enyi and Umegaki relative entropy from the idea of distribution of a positive selfadjoint operator. Classical results on R\'enyi and Kullback-Leibler divergences are applied to obtain new results and new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 George Androulakis , Tiju Cherian John

Relative entropy serves as a cornerstone concept in quantum information theory. In this work, we study relative entropy of random states from major generic state models of Hilbert-Schmidt and Bures-Hall ensembles. In particular, we derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lu Wei

In ordinary Boltzmann-Gibbs thermostatistics, the relative entropy expression plays the role of generalized free energy, providing the difference between the off-equilibrium and equilibrium free energy terms associated with Boltzmann-Gibbs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 G. B. Bagci

A link between the semiclassical Einstein equation and a maximal vacuum entanglement hypothesis is established. The hypothesis asserts that entanglement entropy in small geodesic balls is maximized at fixed volume in a locally maximally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-28 Ted Jacobson

We show that a relativistic gas may be at ``global'' equilibrium in the expanding universe for any equation of state $0 < p \leq \rho /3$, provided that the gas particles move under the influence of a self-interacting, effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Winfried Zimdahl , Alexander B. Balakin

Electro-energy-reaction-diffusion systems are thermodynamically consistent continuum models for reaction-diffusion processes that account for temperature and electrostatic effects in a way that total charge and energy are conserved. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Katharina Hopf , Michael Kniely , Alexander Mielke

We deal with a generalized statistical description of nonequilibrium complex systems based on least biased distributions given some prior information. A maximum entropy principle is introduced that allows for the determination of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erik Van der Straeten , Christian Beck

The Reduced Relativistic Gas (RRG) is a simplified version of the ideal relativistic gas, which assumes that all particles have the same momentum magnitude. Although this is a very idealized situation, the resulting model preserves the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-25 G. Pordeus-da-Silva , R. C. Batista , L. G. Medeiros