A correspondence from renormalized frequency to heat capacity for particles in an anharmonic potential
Abstract
For particles in an anharmonic potential, classical mechanics asserts that there is a renormalization of the bare frequency of the oscillatory motion, and statistical mechanics claims that the anharmonicity causes a correction to the heat capacity of an ideal gas composed of particles in the anharmonic potential. When the frequency and the heat capacity are expressed in perturbative series, respective, in terms of the characteristic lengths in mechanics and statistical physics, the expansion coefficients have an order-by-order correspondence. This correspondence is in contrast to our intuition that the renormalized frequency enters the statistical mechanics as a single quantity.
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@article{arxiv.2210.00906,
title = {A correspondence from renormalized frequency to heat capacity for particles in an anharmonic potential},
author = {Y. T. Liu and Y. H. Zhao and Y. Zhong and J. H. Zhang and Q. H. Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00906},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
the interpretation of the results is not convincing, and should be done in opposite direction