What is Entropy? A new perspective from games of chance
arXiv:2103.08681 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.024117
Abstract
Given entropy's central role in multiple areas of physics and science, one important task is to develop a systematic and unifying approach to defining entropy. Games of chance become a natural candidate for characterising the uncertainty of a physical system, as a system's performance in gambling games depends solely on the uncertainty of its output. In this work, we construct families of games which induce pre-orders corresponding to majorization, conditional majorization, and channel majorization. Finally, we provide operational interpretations for all pre-orders, show the relevance of these results to dynamical resource theories, and find the only asymptotically continuous classical dynamic entropy.
arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures
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