Can Single Particles have Entropy?
I have studied online that entropy is only a property of a group of particles and never a single particle.
Thinking about this I came accross a thought experiment where I have a particle enclosed in a small box with a hole connecting to a very large box. If the larger box is infinitely large as compared to the smaller one, then if we leave this system for a while we will observe particle always ends up in the larger chamber.
So is it correct to describe this process as increasing the entropy of the system/the particle?
If yes, then here we were able to describe entropy of a single particle which contradicts the above.
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