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This extended tutorial essay views thermodynamics as an incomplete description of quantum systems with many degrees of freedom. The main goal is to show that the approach to equilibrium - with equilibrium characterized by maximum ignorance about the open system of interest - neither requires that many particles nor is it a precise way of partitioning relevant for the salient features of equilibrium and equilibration. Moreover it is indeed quantum effects that are at work in bringing about universal thermodynamic behaviour of modestly sized open systems. Von Neumann`s concept of entropy thus proves to be much more widely useful than something to be feared, and far beyond truly macroscopic systems in equilibrium.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
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Fachbereich: | Theoretische Physik |
Genre: | Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Physik, Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
xiv
346 S. 88 s/w Illustr. 346 p. 88 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783540705093 |
ISBN-10: | 3540705090 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 12327188 |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: |
Gemmer, Jochen
Mahler, Günter Michel, M. |
Auflage: | Second Edition 2009 |
Hersteller: |
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com |
Maße: | 241 x 160 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jochen Gemmer (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.10.2009 |
Gewicht: | 0,711 kg |
This extended tutorial essay views thermodynamics as an incomplete description of quantum systems with many degrees of freedom. The main goal is to show that the approach to equilibrium - with equilibrium characterized by maximum ignorance about the open system of interest - neither requires that many particles nor is it a precise way of partitioning relevant for the salient features of equilibrium and equilibration. Moreover it is indeed quantum effects that are at work in bringing about universal thermodynamic behaviour of modestly sized open systems. Von Neumann`s concept of entropy thus proves to be much more widely useful than something to be feared, and far beyond truly macroscopic systems in equilibrium.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Theoretische Physik |
Genre: | Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Physik, Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
xiv
346 S. 88 s/w Illustr. 346 p. 88 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783540705093 |
ISBN-10: | 3540705090 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 12327188 |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: |
Gemmer, Jochen
Mahler, Günter Michel, M. |
Auflage: | Second Edition 2009 |
Hersteller: |
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com |
Maße: | 241 x 160 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jochen Gemmer (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.10.2009 |
Gewicht: | 0,711 kg |