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# Critique of the Gibbs volume entropy and its implication

@article{Wang2015CritiqueOT,
title={Critique of the Gibbs volume entropy and its implication},
author={Jian-Sheng Wang},
journal={arXiv: Statistical Mechanics},
year={2015}
}
Dunkel and Hilbert, "Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures," Nature Physics, {\bf 10}, 67 (2014), and Hilbert, H\"anggi, and Dunkel, "Thermodynamic laws in isolated systems," Phys. Rev. E {\bf 90}, 062116 (2014) have presented an unusual view of thermodynamics that sets aside several properties that have traditionally have been assumed to be true. Among other features, their results do not satisfy the postulates of thermodynamics originally proposed by Tisza and…
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