On thermodynamic and microscopic reversibility
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On thermodynamic and microscopic reversibility
The word ‘reversible’ has two (apparently) distinct applications in statistical thermodynamics. A thermodynamically reversible process indicates an experimental protocol for which the entropy change is zero, whereas the principle of microscopic reversibility asserts that the probability of any trajectory of a system through phase space equals that of the time reversed trajectory. However, these...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1742-5468
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/07/p07008