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This paper offers a pedestrian guide from the fundamental properties of entropy to the axioms of thermodynamics, which are a consequence of the axiom of statistical physics. It also dismantles flawed concepts, such as assigning physical…

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The microscopic explanation of entropy has been challenged from both experimental and theoretical point of view. The expression of entropy is derived from the first law of thermodynamics indicating that entropy or the second law of…

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In this paper, heat and Carnot's working substance are defined respectively by the equations $E=3pV$ and $E=3/2pV$, relating the energy $E$, the pressure $p$ and the volume $V$ of these two corpuscular systems. The thermodynamic-kinetic…

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This work formulates and gives grounds for general principles and theorems that question the energy function doctrine and its quantum version as a genuine law of nature without borders of adequacy. The emphasis is on the domain where the…

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The usual formulation of thermodynamics is based on the additivity of macroscopic systems. However, there are numerous examples of macroscopic systems that are not additive, due to the long-range character of the interaction among the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ivan Latella , Agustín Pérez-Madrid , Alessandro Campa , Lapo Casetti , Stefano Ruffo

Thermodynamical arguments are known to be useful in the construction of physically motivated Lyapunov functionals for nonlinear stability analysis of spatially homogeneous equilibrium steady states in thermodynamically isolated systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-06 Miroslav Bulíček , Josef Málek , Vít Průša

In standard thermodynamics, internal energy is a state function, independent of process rates. We show that this structure breaks down in open quantum systems undergoing thermalization. Within Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Youngone Lee

Thermodynamics is a science concerning the state of a system, whether it is stable, metastable, or unstable. The combined law of thermodynamics derived by Gibbs about 150 years ago laid the foundation of thermodynamics. In Gibbs combined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-03 Zi-Kui Liu

The recursive property of entropy is well known in information theory; however, the concept is underutilized in thermodynamics, despite being the field where the concept of entropy originated. The zentropy approach is built on this idea,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Luke Allen Myers , Nigel Lee En Hew , Shun-Li Shang , Zi-Kui Liu

Quantum thermodynamics addresses the emergence of thermodynamical laws from quantum mechanics. The link is based on the intimate connection of quantum thermodynamics with the theory of open quantum systems. Quantum mechanics inserts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ronnie Kosloff

Thermal duality, which relates the physics of closed strings at temperature T to the physics at the inverse temperature 1/T, is one of the most intriguing features of string thermodynamics. Unfortunately, the classical definitions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Keith R. Dienes , Michael Lennek

A general quantum theory encompassing Mechanics, Thermodynamics and irreversible dynamics is presented in two parts. The first part is concerned exclusively with the description of the states of any individual physical system. It is based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gian Paolo Beretta

The pivotal point of the paper is to discuss the behavior of temperature, pressure, energy density as a function of volume along with determination of caloric EoS from following two model: $w(z)=w_{0}+w_{1}\ln(1+z)$ & $…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Sridip Pal , Ritabrata Biswas

Since their discovery in 1822, supercritical fluids have been of enduring interest, and have started to be deployed in many important applications. Theoretical understanding of the supercritical state is lacking, and is seen to limit…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 Dima Bolmatov , V. V. Brazhkin , K. Trachenko

Many mechanisms, functions and structures of life have been unraveled. However, the fundamental driving force that propelled chemical evolution and led to life has remained obscure. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, written as an equation of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-10-15 Arto Annila , Erkki Annila

The entropy of classical thermodynamics is uniquely determined by the relation of adiabatical accessibilty between equilibrium states of thermodynamical systems. This review outlines the logical path leading to this results and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Jakob Yngvason

We outline a phenomenological theory of evolution and origin of life by combining the formalism of classical thermodynamics with a statistical description of learning. The maximum entropy principle constrained by the requirement for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Vitaly Vanchurin , Yuri I. Wolf , Eugene V. Koonin , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

A set of core features is set forth as the essence of a thermodynamic description, which derive from large-deviation properties in systems with hierarchies of timescales, but which are \emph{not} dependent upon conservation laws or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Eric Smith

The first law of thermodynamics restates the law of conservation of energy. It partitions the change in energy of a system into two pieces, heat and work. While there is no ambiguity to define heat and work in classical thermodynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Xue-Qun Yan , Yan-Jiao Du , Wen-Tao Hou , Xiao-Ming Liu

Equilibrium thermodynamics is combined with Jarzynski's irreversible work theorem to quantify the excess entropy produced by irreversible processes. The resulting rectified form of the second law parallels the first law, in the sense that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dor Ben-Amotz , J. M. Honig