# Microscopic diagonal entropy and its connection to basic thermodynamic relations

@article{Polkovnikov2011MicroscopicDE,
title={Microscopic diagonal entropy and its connection to basic thermodynamic relations},
author={Anatoli Polkovnikov},
journal={Annals of Physics},
year={2011},
volume={326},
pages={486-499}
}
The author acknowledges helpful discussions with R. Barankov on earlier stages of this work. The author also thanks C. Gogolin for sharing the proof of Eq. (24) and for many valuable comments. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge E. Altman, S. Girvin, V. Gritsev, V. Gurarie, D. Huse, Y. Kafri, W. Zwerger for helpful discussions related to this work. This work was supported by NSF (DMR-0907039), AFOSR YIP, AFOSR FA9550-10-1-0110, and Sloan Foundation. (DMR-0907039 - NSF; AFOSR YIP; FA9550-10-1… Expand

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