Quasiclassical coarse graining and thermodynamic entropy

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Gell Mann, Murray ^a   Hartle, James B ^a,b  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CLASSICAL PHYSICS; DECOHERENCE; THERMODYNAMIC ENTROPY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34548163795     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.022104     Document Type: Article

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