Publication Date:
2016
abstract:
The entropy of a classical thermally isolated Hamiltonian system is given by the logarithm of the measure of phase space enclosed by the constant energy hyper-surface, also known as volume entropy. It has been shown that on average the latter cannot decrease if the initial state is sampled from a classical passive distribution. Quantum extension of this result has been shown, but only for systems with a non-degenerate energy spectrum. Here we further extend to the case of possible degeneracies.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
entropy; quantum mechanics; second law
List of contributors:
Campisi, Michele
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