Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?

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Chua, Eugene Y. S. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Philosophy, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1086/710072
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N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
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01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
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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 von Neumann's argument. I argue that Hemmo and Shenker's arguments fail because of several misunderstandings about statistical-mechanical and thermodynamic domains of applicability, about the nature of mixed states, and about the role of approximations in physics. As a result, their arguments fail in all cases: in the single-particle case, the finite-particles case, and the infinite-particles case.
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