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Entropy is one of the key thermodynamic variables reflecting changes in the state of matter. Unlike other thermodynamic variables, it is well-defined also for nonequilibrium steady states through its relation to information. Applying this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

The Renyi entropy with a free Renyi parameter $q$ is the most justified form of information entropy, and the Tsallis entropy may be regarded as a linear approximation to the Renyi entropy when $q\simeq 1$. When $q\to 1$, both entropies go…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei G. Bashkirov

The Boltzmann-Gibbs celebrated entropy $S_{BG}=-k\sum_ip_i \ln p_i$ is {\it concave} (with regard to all probability distributions $\{p_i\}$) and {\it stable} (under arbitrarily small deformations of any given probability distribution). It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. M. C. Souza , C. Tsallis

Statistical formulations of thermodynamic entropy, such as those by Boltzmann and Gibbs, were originally developed for classical systems and are well understood in that context. However, the foundational aspects of quantum statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Smitarani Mishra , Shaon Sahoo

In this paper, we show that 1) additive energy is not appropriate for discussing the validity of Tsallis or R\'enyi statistics for nonextensive systems at meta-equilibrium; 2) $N$-body systems with nonadditive energy or entropy should be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. A. Wang , L. Nivanen , M. Pezeril , A. Le Méhauté

Using a Wigner function based approach, we study the Renyi entropy of a subsystem $A$ of a system of Bosons interacting with a local repulsive potential. The full system is assumed to be in thermal equilibrium at a temperature $T$ and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ahana Chakraborty , Rajdeep Sensarma

The physical foundations of a variety of emerging technologies --- ranging from the applications of quantum entanglement in quantum information to the applications of nonequilibrium bulk and interface phenomena in microfluidics, biology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Gian Paolo Beretta , Enzo Zanchini

The standard formulation of thermostatistics, being based on the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution and logarithmic Shannon entropy, describes idealized uncorrelated systems with extensive energies and short-range interactions. In this letter, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 S. N. Saadatmand , Tim Gould , E. G. Cavalcanti , J. A. Vaccaro

Shannon and Khinchin showed that assuming four information theoretic axioms the entropy must be of Boltzmann-Gibbs type, $S=-\sum_i p_i \log p_i$. Here we note that in physical systems one of these axioms may be violated. For non-ergodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Stefan Thurner , Rudolf Hanel

We study a particle immersed in a heat bath, in the presence of an external force which decays at least as rapidly as $1/x$, for example a particle interacting with a surface through a Lennard-Jones or a logarithmic potential. As time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-09 Erez Aghion , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

The title of the paper leads to an incorrect conclusion as we show that the equilibrium result of the paper is a special limit of a general result for nonequilibrium systems in internal equilibrium already available in the literature. We…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 P. D. Gujrati

A theory of thermodynamics has been recently formulated and derived on the basis of R\'enyi entropy and its relative versions. In this framework, we define the concepts of partition function, internal energy and free energy, and fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Natália Bebiano , João da Providência , João Pinheiro da Providência

In this paper, we extend Gibbs's approach of quasi-equilibrium thermodynamic processes, and calculate the microscopic expression of entropy for general non-equilibrium thermodynamic processes. Also, we analyze the formal structure of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Jun Chul Park

A definition of the thermodynamic entropy based on the time-dependent probability distribution of the macroscopic variables is developed. When a constraint in a composite system is released, the probability distribution for the new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 Robert H. Swendsen

It is by now well known that the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) entropy $S_{BG}=-k\sum_{i=1}^W p_i \ln p_i$ can be usefully generalized into the entropy $S_q=k (1-\sum_{i=1}^Wp_i^{q}) / (q-1)$ ($q\in \mathcal{R}; S_1=S_{BG}$). Microscopic dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giorgos-Artemios Tsekouras , Constantino Tsallis

Statistical entropies of a general relativistic ideal gas obeying Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics are calculated in a general axisymmetry space-time of arbitrary dimension. This general formation can be used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Q. Wu , X. Cai

We compute Araki's relative entropy associated to a bounded interval $I=(a,b)$ between a thermal state and a coherent excitation of itself in the bosonic U(1)-current model, namely the (derivative of the) chiral boson. For this purpose we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Alan Garbarz , Gabriel Palau

Depending on the exact experimental conditions, the thermodynamic properties of physical systems can be related to one or more thermostatistical ensembles. Here, we survey the notion of thermodynamic temperature in different statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-05 Peter Hänggi , Stefan Hilbert , Jörn Dunkel

The maximum entropy formalism developed by Jaynes determines the relevant ensemble in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics by maximising the entropy functional subject to the constraints imposed by the available information. We present an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 M. Meléndez , P. Español

Certain fluctuations in particle number at fixed total energy lead exactly to a cut-power law distribution in the one-particle energy, via the induced fluctuations in the phase-space volume ratio. The temperature parameter is expressed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-10 Tamas Sandor Biro , Peter Van , Gergely Gabor Barnafoldi , Karoly Urmossy