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Fluctuations of intensive quantities in statistical thermodynamics

Mathematical Physics 2013-11-13 v2 math.MP

Abstract

In phenomenological thermodynamics, the canonical coordinates of a physical system split in pairs with each pair consisting of an extensive quantity and an intensive one. In the present paper, the quasi-thermodynamic fluctuation theory of a model system of a large number of oscillators is extended to statistical thermodynamics based on the idea to perceive the fluctuations of intensive variables as the fluctuations of specific extensive ones in a "thermodynamically dual" system. The extension is motivated by the symmetry of the problem in the context of an analogy with quantum mechanics which is stated in terms of a generalized Pauli problem for the thermodynamic fluctuations. The doubled Boltzmann constant divided by the number of particles plays a similar role to the Planck constant.

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@article{arxiv.1309.4439,
  title  = {Fluctuations of intensive quantities in statistical thermodynamics},
  author = {Artur E. Ruuge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4439},
  year   = {2013}
}

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24 pages; download the journal version (open access) from http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/11/4889