Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?

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Conventional wisdom holds that the von Neumann entropy corresponds to thermodynamic entropy, but Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker have recently argued against this view by attacking Neumann’s argument. I argue Shenker’s arguments fail because of several misunderstandings about statistical-mechanical domains applicability, nature mixed states, role approximations in physics. As a result, their all cases: single-particle case, finite-particles infinite-particles case.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy of Science

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0031-8248', '1539-767X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/710072