Monday, 3 July 2017

statistical mechanics - Renyi entropy in physical systems


We know that the Shannon entropy $H(P)=- k_{\mathrm{B}}\sum_i p_i \ln p_i$ is mostly the entropy of the thermodynamic systems. Does the Renyi measure $H_{\alpha}(P)=\frac{1}{1-\alpha}\log \sum p_i^{\alpha}$, $\alpha\neq 1$ also actually measure the entropy of some physical system?




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