{"database":"biostudies-other","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["5"],"submitter":["Wei BB"],"journal":["Scientific Reports"],"pagination":["15077"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4609982"],"abstract":["The holographic principle states that the information about a volume of a system is encoded on the boundary surface of the volume. Holography appears in many branches of physics, such as optics, electromagnetism, many-body physics, quantum gravity, and string theory. Here we show that holography is also an underlying principle in thermodynamics, a most important foundation of physics. The thermodynamics of a system is fully determined by its partition function. We prove that the partition function of a finite but arbitrarily large system is an analytic function on the complex plane of physical parameters, and therefore the partition function in a region on the complex plane is uniquely determined by its values along the boundary. The thermodynamic holography has applications in studying thermodynamics of nano-scale systems (such as molecule engines, nano-generators and macromolecules) and provides a new approach to many-body physics."],"repository":["biostudies-other"],"data_source":["Europe PMC"],"pubmed_authors":["Wei BB","Liu RB","Jiang ZF"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Thermodynamic holography.","description":"The holographic principle states that the information about a volume of a system is encoded on the boundary surface of the volume. Holography appears in many branches of physics, such as optics, electromagnetism, many-body physics, quantum gravity, and string theory. Here we show that holography is also an underlying principle in thermodynamics, a most important foundation of physics. The thermodynamics of a system is fully determined by its partition function. We prove that the partition function of a finite but arbitrarily large system is an analytic function on the complex plane of physical parameters, and therefore the partition function in a region on the complex plane is uniquely determined by its values along the boundary. The thermodynamic holography has applications in studying thermodynamics of nano-scale systems (such as molecule engines, nano-generators and macromolecules) and provides a new approach to many-body physics.","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015","modification":"2019-08-03T07:19:07Z","creation":"2019-08-03T07:19:07Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4609982","cross_references":{"DOI":["10.1038/srep15077 "]}}