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Non-Gibbs states on a Bose-Hubbard lattice

Statistical Mechanics 2020-03-04 v5 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study the equilibrium properties of the repulsive quantum Bose-Hubbard model at high temperatures in arbitrary dimensions, with and without disorder. In its microcanonical setting the model conserves energy and particle number. The microcanonical dynamics is characterized by a pair of two densities: energy density ε\varepsilon and particle number density nn. The macrocanonical Gibbs distribution also depends on two parameters: the inverse nonnegative temperature β\beta and the chemical potential μ\mu. We prove the existence of non-Gibbs states, that is, pairs (ε,n)(\varepsilon,n) which cannot be mapped onto (β,μ)(\beta,\mu). The separation line in the density control parameter space between Gibbs and non-Gibbs states εn2\varepsilon \sim n^2 corresponds to infinite temperature β=0\beta=0. The non-Gibbs phase cannot be cured into a Gibbs one within the standard Gibbs formalism using negative temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05371,
  title  = {Non-Gibbs states on a Bose-Hubbard lattice},
  author = {Alexander Yu. Cherny and Thomas Engl and Sergej Flach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05371},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

8 pages, 1 figure, misprints corrected