COMPARISON OF SPECTRAL ENTROPY WITH STATISTICAL ENTROPY IN SELECTED PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Authors
CREPEAU JC HERZEL H
Citation
Jc. Crepeau et H. Herzel, COMPARISON OF SPECTRAL ENTROPY WITH STATISTICAL ENTROPY IN SELECTED PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, Journal of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, 21(2), 1996, pp. 169-174
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Mechanics
Journal title
Journal of non-equilibrium thermodynamics → ACNP
ISSN journal
03400204
Volume
21
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
169 - 174
Database
ISI
SICI code
0340-0204(1996)21:2<169:COSEWS>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
In an attempt to find a connection between the statistical entropy and the spectral entropy proposed by Powell and Percival, these propertie s are explicitly computed and compared for three different systems: Br ownian motion of a particle in a fluid, Brownian motion in a harmonic potential, and the photon gas. It is shown that in these systems the s tatistical and the spectral entropy compare weakly since they quantify different statistical aspects.