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Quantum Thermodynamics - Emergence of Thermodynamic Behavior Within Composite Quantum Systems (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
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Quantum Thermodynamics - Emergence of Thermodynamic Behavior Within Composite Quantum Systems (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 784
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Over the years enormous effort was invested in proving ergodicity,
but for a number of reasons, con?dence in the fruitfulness of this
approach has waned. - Y. Ben-Menahem and I. Pitowsky [1] Abstract
The basic motivation behind the present text is threefold: To give
a new explanation for the emergence of thermodynamics, to
investigate the interplay between quantum mechanics and
thermodynamics, and to explore possible ext- sions of the common
validity range of thermodynamics. Originally, thermodynamics has
been a purely phenomenological science. Early s- entists (Galileo,
Santorio, Celsius, Fahrenheit) tried to give de?nitions for
quantities which were intuitively obvious to the observer, like
pressure or temperature, and studied their interconnections. The
idea that these phenomena might be linked to other ?elds of
physics, like classical mechanics, e.g., was not common in those
days. Such a connection was basically introduced when Joule
calculated the heat equ- alent in 1840 showing that heat was a form
of energy, just like kinetic or potential energy in the theory of
mechanics. At the end of the 19th century, when the atomic theory
became popular, researchers began to think of a gas as a huge
amount of bouncing balls inside a box.
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