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We show that for systems with a large number of microstates Rényi entropies do not represent experimentally observable quantities except the Rényi entropy that coincides with the Shannon entropy.
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Work supported by the DFG (1978); author is recipient of a Feodor-Lynen grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
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Lesche, B. Instabilities of Rényi entropies. J Stat Phys 27, 419–422 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01008947
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01008947