Characterizing entropy in statistical physics and in quantum information theory

DOI10.1007/S10701-014-9832-YzbMATH Open1366.81081OpenAlexW2963479985MaRDI QIDQ474897FDOQ474897

Authors Bernhard Baumgartner

Publication date 25 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5727

zbMATH Keywords

entropyinformationaxiomaticlarge numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

Abstract: A new axiomatic characterization with a minimum of conditions for entropy as a function on the set of states in quantum mechanics is presented. Traditionally unspoken assumptions are unveiled and replaced by proven consequences of the axioms. First the Boltzmann-Planck formula is derived. Building on this formula, using the Law of Large Numbers - a basic theorem of probability theory - the von Neumann formula is deduced. Axioms used in older theories on the foundations are now derived facts.

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