Abstract
The product of the rms fluctuations of an extensive thermodynamic variable with that of its conjugate intensive thermodynamic variable is bounded below by k in the entropy representation and by kT in the energy representation. The uncertainty relations of statistical mechanics are equivalent to the stability relations of equilibrium thermodynamics.
- Received 26 October 1984
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.31.3237
©1985 American Physical Society
