Entropy additivity from exponential decay of correlations: a coarse-grained operator approach
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| author | Osano, Bob |
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| contents | Thermodynamic extensivity is commonly introduced as a postulate -- the homogeneity of degree one in thermodynamic potentials. We provide a constructive derivation of this property from microscopic conditions on the pair potential, without assuming it. Working with the one- and two-particle reduced densities of the $N$-body canonical Gibbs state, we introduce a combined coarse-graining operator $\mathcal{C}$ on single-particle phase space $\mathcal{M}=Λ\times\mathbb{R}^3$, producing dimensionless mesoscopic probabilities over spatial--momentum cells $\{V_i\timesΠ_α\}$. Under three conditions on the pair potential -- stability, temperedness, and exponential cluster decomposition with correlation length $ξ$ -- we show, using the Ursell cluster expansion, that the coarse-grained entropy satisfies \[S_{\mathrm{CG}}=\sum_i S_i+O\!\left(\frac{|Λ|}{\ell^d}e^{-\ell/ξ}\right),\] where $\ell\ggξ$ is the cell diameter. The correction is exponentially suppressed per cell, making entropy additive and recovering the thermodynamic limit of Ruelle and Fisher in explicit operator language. For systems with long-range interactions, where temperedness fails, the correction does not vanish, and non-additivity is quantified through inter-cell mutual information. We further show that spatial averaging does not commute with nonlinear thermodynamic functionals such as the entropy density -- a thermodynamic analogue of the cosmological averaging problem -- and we derive the generalised Euler relation with explicit surface corrections. |
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| spellingShingle | Entropy additivity from exponential decay of correlations: a coarse-grained operator approach Osano, Bob Statistical Mechanics Thermodynamic extensivity is commonly introduced as a postulate -- the homogeneity of degree one in thermodynamic potentials. We provide a constructive derivation of this property from microscopic conditions on the pair potential, without assuming it. Working with the one- and two-particle reduced densities of the $N$-body canonical Gibbs state, we introduce a combined coarse-graining operator $\mathcal{C}$ on single-particle phase space $\mathcal{M}=Λ\times\mathbb{R}^3$, producing dimensionless mesoscopic probabilities over spatial--momentum cells $\{V_i\timesΠ_α\}$. Under three conditions on the pair potential -- stability, temperedness, and exponential cluster decomposition with correlation length $ξ$ -- we show, using the Ursell cluster expansion, that the coarse-grained entropy satisfies \[S_{\mathrm{CG}}=\sum_i S_i+O\!\left(\frac{|Λ|}{\ell^d}e^{-\ell/ξ}\right),\] where $\ell\ggξ$ is the cell diameter. The correction is exponentially suppressed per cell, making entropy additive and recovering the thermodynamic limit of Ruelle and Fisher in explicit operator language. For systems with long-range interactions, where temperedness fails, the correction does not vanish, and non-additivity is quantified through inter-cell mutual information. We further show that spatial averaging does not commute with nonlinear thermodynamic functionals such as the entropy density -- a thermodynamic analogue of the cosmological averaging problem -- and we derive the generalised Euler relation with explicit surface corrections. |
| title | Entropy additivity from exponential decay of correlations: a coarse-grained operator approach |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17956 |