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### Do unstable equilibria lead to a violation of Liouville's theorem?

Liouville's theorem says that the flow in phase space is like an incompressible fluid. One implication of this is that if two systems start at different points in phase space their phase-space ...
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### How does the lack of information increase as temperature increases?

Suppose one knows nothing about the concept of entropy. How can we argue that the lack of information/ignorance about the system typically increases with the increase in the temperature using the ...
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### Why does distribution density seem to change though Liouville says it shouldn't?

I am trying to get a deeper understanding of Liouville's theorem and the distribution function in general. As an aid, I was thinking of the following simple, one-dimensional case: ball bearings are ...
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### Extending the ergodic theorem to non-equilibrium systems

I try to make this as short and concise as possible. For equilibrium systems in statistical mechanics, we have the Liouville's theorem which says that the volume in phase space is conserved when the ...
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### How does the fluctuation theorem dissipation function become entropy?

In "The Fluctuation Theorem" by Evans and Searles, they derive the transient fluctuation theorem from Liouville's theorem (pg 1541). Following their notation $\Gamma = (\vec{q}, \vec{p})$, they use ...