The second law of thermodynamics at the microscopic scale

DOI10.1007/S10701-017-0104-5zbMath1387.82024arXiv1702.07706OpenAlexW2594426469MaRDI QIDQ1709174

Thibaut Josset

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07706

zbMATH Keywords

second law of thermodynamicsvon Neumann entropyisolated systemsquantum typicality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

Cites Work

• From Quantum Dynamics to the Canonical Distribution: General Picture and a Rigorous Example
• No firewalls in quantum gravity: the role of discreteness of quantum geometry in resolving the information loss paradox

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