Talk kindly contributed by Owen Lynch in SEMF's 2023 Interdisciplinary Summer School (semf.org.es/school2023)
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TALK ABSTRACT
Classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are both "driven by energy", in the sense that one has a free choice of Hamiltonian and then the dynamics is a function of that. Statistical mechanics, on the other hand, is "driven by entropy" in that the derivation of equilibria and the distribution of ensembles is chosen by the entropy maximization principle. In the real world, however, systems behave in both ways; they are driven both by energy and entropy. How can we model this within mathematical physics? In this talk, I will dig into this question in more detail and discuss some partial answers.
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21 ноя 2023
