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Entropy, Macroscopic Information, and Phase Transitions

Juan M. R. Parrondo

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9911066

Abstract

The relationship between entropy and information is reviewed, taking into account that information is stored in macroscopic degrees of freedom, such as the order parameter in a system exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking. It is shown that most problems of the relationship between entropy and information, embodied in a variety of Maxwell demons, are also present in any symmetry breaking transition.

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