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Thermodynamical versus logical irreversibility: a concrete objection to Landauer's principle
D. Lairez
Landauer's principle states that the logical irreversibility of an operation, such as erasing one bit, whatever its physical implementation, necessarily implies its thermodynamical…
Plea for the use of the exact Stirling formula in statistical mechanics
Didier Lairez
In statistical mechanics, the generally called Stirling approximation is actually an approximation of Stirling's formula. In this article, it is shown that the term that is dropped…
A short derivation of Boltzmann distribution and Gibbs entropy formula from the fundamental postulate
Didier Lairez
Introducing the Boltzmann distribution very early in a statistical thermodynamics course (in the spirit of Feynmann) has many didactic advantages, in particular that of easily deri…
What entropy really is : the contribution of information theory
Didier Lairez
Even today, the concept of entropy is perceived by many as quite obscure. The main difficulty is analyzed as being fundamentally due to the subjectivity and anthropocentrism of the…
Exact resolution function for double-disk chopper neutron time-of-flight spectrometers : Application to reflectivity
Didier Lairez, Alexis Chennevière, Frédéric Ott
The exact resolution function in transfer vector for the reflectometer HERMÈS at Laboratoire Léon Brillouin is calculated as an example of neutron time-of-fligh spectrometer with d…
Crowding effect on helix-coil transition: beyond entropic stabilization
A. Koutsioubas, D. Lairez, S. Combet +3
We report circular dichroism measurements on the helix-coil transition of poly(L-glutamic acid) in solution with polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a crowding agent. Using small angle ne…