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| Apr 28, 2023 at 8:52 | comment | added | Benoit | I agree that ergodicity is the key property. The system visits each energy level fully, that's how the distribution "spreads" to an equilibrium state when averaging over time. The entropy increases because the distribution is replaced by a distribution that is uniform over each energy level and the uniform distribution is known to have maximum entropy. "Mixing" is a stronger property that "ergodicity", allowing to not average over time (but we still need to wait). It is quite a theoretical detail. | |
| Apr 28, 2023 at 7:47 | history | answered | Roger V. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |