Remarks on Shannon's Statistical Inference and the Second Law in Quantum Statistical Mechanics

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-74

  Fujikawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

2nd law; Entropy; Macroscopic observable; Quantum statistical mechanics; Shannon's statistical inference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; ENTROPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036302545     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.71.67     Document Type: Article

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