How does the entropy/information bound work?

DOI10.1007/S10701-005-7350-7MaRDI QIDQ2505722zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jacob D. Bekenstein

Publication date 28 September 2006

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404042

zbMATH Keywords

entropyinformationblack holessecond lawentropy boundsgeneralized second law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Black holes (83C57) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05)

Abstract: According to the universal entropy bound, the entropy (and hence information capacity) of a complete weakly self-gravitating physical system can be bounded exclusively in terms of its circumscribing radius and total gravitating energy. The bound's correctness is supported by explicit statistical calculations of entropy, gedanken experiments involving the generalized second law, and Bousso's covariant holographic bound. On the other hand, it is not always obvious in a particular example how the system avoids having too many states for given energy, and hence violating the bound. We analyze in detail several purported counterexamples of this type (involving systems made of massive particles, systems at low temperature, systems with high degeneracy of the lowest excited states, systems with degenerate ground states, or involving a particle spectrum with proliferation of nearly massless species), and exhibit in each case the mechanism behind the bound's efficacy.

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