Microscopic Legendre Transform, Canonical Ensemble and Jaynes' Maximum Entropy Principle

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13762v2
• Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:46:35 GMT
• Title: Microscopic Legendre Transform, Canonical Ensemble and Jaynes' Maximum Entropy Principle
• Authors: Ramandeep S. Johal
• Abstract summary: We study the Legendre transform between the free energy and Shannon entropy, denoted as the microscopic Legendre transform ($mathscrL_!mathscrM$) We formulate the exact differential property of the Shannon entropy and utilize it to derive central relations within canonical ensemble.
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• Abstract: Legendre transform between thermodynamic quantities such as the Helmholtz free energy and entropy plays a key role in the formulation of the canonical ensemble. The transform helps to exchange the independent variable from the system's internal energy to its conjugate variable -- the inverse temperature of the reservoir. In this article, we study the Legendre transform between the free energy and Shannon entropy, denoted as the microscopic Legendre transform ($\mathscr{L}_{\!\mathscr{M}}^{}$), where the conjugate variables are the microstate probabilities and the energies (scaled by the inverse temperature). We formulate the exact differential property of the Shannon entropy and utilize it to derive central relations within canonical ensemble. Thermodynamics of a system in contact with a heat reservoir is discussed from this perspective. Other approaches, in particular, Jaynes' maximum entropy principle is compared with the present approach.

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