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This is an analysis of the additivity of the entropy of thermodynamical systems with finite heat baths. It is presented an expression for the physical entropy of weakly interacting ergodic systems, and it is shown that it is valid for both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Almeida

The work approaches the study of the fluctuations for the thermodynamic systems in the presence of the fields. The approach is of phenomenological nature and developed in a Gaussian approximation. The study is exemplified on the cases of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dumitru , A. Boer

D.J. Evans, et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2401 (1993)] discovered a relation, subsequently known as the Fluctuation Theorem (FT), which quantifies the probability of observing fluctuations violating the second law of thermodynamics in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-19 A. Y. Gorobets , J. M. Borrero , S. Berdyugina

Dissipative quantum systems are frequently described within the framework of the so-called "system-plus-reservoir" approach. In this work we assign their description to the Maximum Entropy Formalism and compare the resulting thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lisan M. M. Durão , Amir O. Caldeira

Generalized entropy, that has been recently proposed, puts all the known and apparently different entropies like The Tsallis, the R\'{e}nyi, the Barrow, the Kaniadakis, the Sharma-Mittal and the loop quantum gravity entropy within a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-08 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul

We show that a proper expression of the uncertainty relation for a pair of canonically-conjugate continuous variables relies on entropy power, a standard notion in Shannon information theory for real-valued signals. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Anaelle Hertz , Michael G. Jabbour , Nicolas J. Cerf

The multiplicity fluctuations of hadrons are studied within the statistical hadron-resonance gas model in the large volume limit. The role of quantum statistics and resonance decay effects are discussed. The microscopic correlator method is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Gorenstein

Temperature of a finite-sized system fluctuates due to the thermal fluctuations. However, a systematic mathematical framework for measuring or estimating the temperature is still underdeveloped. Here, we incorporate the estimation theory in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Shaoyong Zhang , Zhaoyu Fei , Xiaoguang Wang

Active biological systems reside far from equilibrium, dissipating heat even in their steady state, thus requiring an extension of conventional equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. In this Letter, we have extended the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-22 Dibyendu Mandal , Katherine Klymko , Michael R. DeWeese

We consider the possibilities for prediction of liquids' density under pressure basing on the inverse reduced fluctuations parameter, which is directly connected with the isothermal compressibility. This quantity can be determined basing on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. B. Postnikov , A. L. Goncharov , V. V. Melent'ev

This paper presents a new, non-Gaussian formulation of stochastic gravity by incorporating the higher moments of the fluctuations of the quantum stress energy tensor for a free quantum scalar field in a consistent way. A scheme is developed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-17 Jason D. Bates

A fluctuation relation is derived to extract the order parameter function $q(x)$ in weakly ergodic systems. The relation is based on measuring and classifying entropy production fluctuations according to the value of the overlap $q$ between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-11 A. Crisanti , M. Picco , F. Ritort

Within the Tsallis thermodynamics' framework, and using scaling properties of the entropy, we derive a generalization of the Gibbs-Duhem equation. The analysis suggests a transformation of variables that allows standard thermodynamics to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eduard Vives , Antoni Planes

The Fluctuation Theorem (FT) is a generalisation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics that applies to small systems observed for short times. For thermostatted systems it gives the probability ratio that entropy will be consumed rather than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Owen Jepps , Denis J. Evans , Debra J. Searles

Recently, we have derived a generalization of the known canonical fluctuation relation $k_{B}C=\beta^{2}< \delta U^{2} >$ between heat capacity $C$ and energy fluctuations, which can account for the existence of macrostates with negative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-16 L. Velazquez , S. Curilef

Relationships are obtained expressing the breaking of spin-reversal symmetry by an external magnetic field in Gibbsian canonical equilibrium states of spin systems under specific assumptions. These relationships include an exact fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pierre Gaspard

We present a derivation of power law canonical distributions from first principle statistical mechanics, including the exponential distribution as a It is presented a derivation of power law canonical distributions from first principle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. P. Almeida

We give a new characterization of relative entropy, also known as the Kullback-Leibler divergence. We use a number of interesting categories related to probability theory. In particular, we consider a category FinStat where an object is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 John C. Baez , Tobias Fritz

A new axiomatic characterization with a minimum of conditions for entropy as a function on the set of states in quantum mechanics is presented. Traditionally unspoken assumptions are unveiled and replaced by proven consequences of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Bernhard Baumgartner

We prove that information-theoretic maximum entropy (MaxEnt) approach to canonical ensemble is mathematically equivalent to the classic approach of Boltzmann, Gibbs and Darwin-Fowler. The two approaches, however, "interpret" a same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-01 Hao Ge , Hong Qian