Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300, CODEN: ENTRFG) since 1999

Special Issue  "Gibbs Paradox and Its Resolutions"

[Editors] [Call for Papers] [Keywords] [Submission Instructions] [Published Papers] [Planned Papers] [Literature] 

2007 Edition: Deadline 1 Decemerb 2007. Papers published free of charge
2008 Edition: Deadline 1 Decemerb 2008 (Open Access article procesing fees will be paid by authors)

Guest Editor: Dr. Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE Amsterdam,  room 2.43, The Netherlands
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: (+31/0)20-5256332, fax:  (+31/0)20-5255778
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nieuwenh/

Editorial Assistant: Mr. Luca Rasetti 
MDPI Center, Entropy Editorial Office, Matthaeusstrasse 11, 4057 Basel, Switzerland. E-Mail: [email protected]

Advisory Board:

Papers should be submitted by e-mail to [email protected] (add "Manuscript Submission for Gibbs Paradox" as the message title), and a copy to Dr. Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen. Both full research papers and review articles are invited. For planned review articles, a title and a short abstract (less than 100 words) can be sent to the Editors for announcment on this website.

Deadline for paper submission: 1 December 2008

• entropy of mixing
  
• distinguishability and indistinguishability
  
• similarity
• symmetry number
  
• phase separation
• configurational entropy (also a related special issue "Configurational Entropy")
  

Arieh Ben-Naim
Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. E-Mail: [email protected]
Discussion: On the So-Called Gibbs Paradox, and on the Real Paradox
Entropy 2007, 9, 133-136 (PDF format 210 K)


Robert H. Swendsen
Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; E-mail: [email protected]
Received: 10 December 2007 / Accepted: 14 March 2008 / Published: 20 March 2008
Full Research Paper: Gibbs’ Paradox and the Definition of Entropy
Entropy 2008, 10, 15-18 (PDF format 118 K)
DOI: 10.3390/entropy-e10010015

Papers published in Entropy related to the topics of Gibbs Paradox


Shu-Kun Lin
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland; Tel. (+41) 79 322 3379; Fax: (+41) 61 302 8918; E-mail: [email protected]; http://www.mdpi.org/lin
Received: 13 March 2008 / Published: 17 March 2008
Commentary: Gibbs Paradox and the Concepts of Information, Symmetry, Similarity and Their Relationship
Entropy 2008, 10, 1-5 (PDF format 91 K)
DOI: 10.3390/entropy-e10010001


Jonathan D. H. Smith
Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. E-mail: [email protected], URL: http://www.math.iastate.edu/jdhsmith/
Some Observations on the Concepts of Information-Theoretic Entropy and Randomness
Entropy 2001, 3, 1-11 (Full text in PDF form, 133 K)


Shu-Kun Lin
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland. Tel. +41 79 322 3379; Fax +41 61 302 8918 ([email protected])
Editorial: Diversity and Entropy
Entropy 1999, 1, 1-3 (Full text in PDF form, 8 K; Full text in HTML form)


Vasili Tatarin^1,* and Oleg Borodiouk^2
1 38 Vitovskogo str., apt.30, Lviv, 290012, Ukraine. Phone (+380) 322 724954, Fax (+380) 322 631565,
E-mail: [email protected], URL: http://www.lviv.ua/~vasya/personal.html
² 43 Volodimira Velikogo str., apt. 75, Lviv, 290053, Ukraine. Phone (+380) 322 337815, E-mail: [email protected]
Entropy Calculation of Reversible Mixing of Ideal Gases Shows Absence of Gibbs Paradox
Entropy 1999, 1, 25-36 (Full text in PDF form, 41 K)

Type of the paper: Full Paper
Title: Classical Solution of Gibbs' Paradox by Means of Newton's Notion of State
Author: Peter Enders
E-mail: [email protected]

Type of the paper: Full Paper
Title:  to be announced
Author: Theo Nieuwenhuizen and A. Allahverdyan
E-mail: [email protected]

A collection of journal papers on Gibbs Paradox is at http://www.mdpi.org/lin/entropy/gibbs-paradox.htm.