Surface tension, hydrophobicity, and black holes: The entropic connection

Details Surface tension, hydrophobicity, and black holes: The entropic connection Surface tension, hydrophobicity, and black holes: The entropic connection

1996-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9601111v1

Phys.Rev.E53:3738,1996

Physics

Condensed Matter

18 pages, plain LATEX, to appear in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.53.3738

Recent calculations have shown that the linear proportionality between black hole entropy and area can be explained by performing a density matrix calculation for a massless free field theory. By applying the same formalism to an empirical fluid ``field theory,'' entropic quantities such as surface tension can be calculated in a novel fashion. Good agreement with experiment is obtained for a number of liquids. This approach may lead to a practical new technique for the evaluation of thermodynamic quantities important entropic components. Implications for the protein folding problem are discussed.

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