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PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Volume 103, Issue 1, Pages 1-52Publisher
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DOI: 10.1143/PTP.103.1
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This paper discusses the thermodynamic irreversibility realized in high-dimensional Hamiltonian systems with a time-dependent parameter. A new quantity, the irreversible information loss, is defined from the Lyapunov analysis so as to characterize the thermodynamic irreversibility, It is proved that this new quantity satisfies an inequality associated with the second lau of thermodynamics. Based on the assumption that these systems possess the mixing property and certain large deviation properties in the thermodynamic limit it is argued reasonably that the most probable value of the irreversible information loss is equal to the change of the Boltzmann entropy in statistical mechanics, and that it is always a non-negative value. The consistency of our argument is confirmed by numerical experiments with the aid of the definition of a quantity we refer to as the excess information loss.
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