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Quantum Entropy Information Measures Quantum Gravity Relativistic Quantum Information Quantum State Preparation Representation Entanglement Theory Quantum Correlations

Entropy from Carnot to Bekenstein

arXiv
Authors: Ted Jacobson

Year

2018

Paper ID

23970

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Preprint

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The second half of this essay tells the story of the genesis and early development of the notion of black hole entropy, in the style of an after dinner talk (apart from a long technical footnote). The first half sketches the development of the concept of entropy, beginning with Carnot, passing via Thomson, Clausius, Boltzmann, Planck, von Neumann, and Shannon on the way to Bekenstein, and the essay ends with a retrospective on Lemaître. The central theme is the fault-tolerant way that profound insights have emerged from simple (yet subtle) thermodynamic reasoning.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1810.07839 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07839 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07839

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