• DOI:10.1103/PHYSREV.106.620
Corpus ID: 17870175

Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics

@article{Jaynes1957InformationTA,
  title={Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics},
  author={E. Jaynes},
  journal={Physical Review},
  year={1957},
  volume={106},
  pages={620-630}
}

E. Jaynes

Published 1957

Physics

Physical Review

Treatment of the predictive aspect of statistical mechanics as a form of statistical inference is extended to the density-matrix formalism and applied to a discussion of the relation between irreversibility and information loss. A principle of "statistical complementarity" is pointed out, according to which the empirically verifiable probabilities of statistical mechanics necessarily correspond to incomplete predictions. A preliminary discussion is given of the second law of thermodynamics and… CONTINUE READING

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