| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 1, January 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 10004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/10004 | |
| Published online | 20 November 2007 | |
Robustness of the second law of thermodynamics under generalizations of the maximum entropy method
1
Department of Physical Engineering, Mie University - Mie 514-8507, Japan
2
Institut Supérieur des Matériaux et Mécaniques Avancés - 44 F. A. Bartholdi, 72000 Le Mans, France
3
Complex Systems Research Group, HNO, Medical University of Vienna - Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090, Austria
4
Santa Fe Institute - 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 8750, USA
Received:
12
August
2007
Accepted:
29
October
2007
It is shown that the laws of thermodynamics are robust under generalizations of the form of entropy. Using the Bregman-type relative entropy, the Clausius inequality is proved to be valid. This implies that thermodynamics does not rule out any consistent generalization of the maximum entropy method.
PACS: 05.70.-a – Thermodynamics / 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics / 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics
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