2014/11/24 by Bo-Bo Wei, Zhan-Feng Jiang, Wei, Bo-Bo +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.6342
The holographic principle states that the information about a volume of a system is encoded on the boundary surface of the volume. Holography appears in many branches of physics, such as optics, electromagnetism, many-body physics, quantum gravity, and string theory. Here we show that holography is also an underlying principle in thermodynamics, a most important foundation of physics. The thermodynamics of a system is fully determined by its partition function. We prove that the partition function of a physical system is an analytic function of all the physical parameters, and therefore its values in any area on the complex plane of a physical parameter are uniquely determined by its values along the boundary. The thermodynamic holography has applications in studying thermodynamics of nano-scale systems (such as molecule engines, nano-generators and macromolecules) and provides a new approach to many-body physics.