Nonequivalent ensembles and metastability
Statistical Mechanics
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
This paper reviews a number of fundamental connections that exist between nonequivalent microcanonical and canonical ensembles, the appearance of first-order phase transitions in the canonical ensemble, and thermodynamic metastable behavior.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0501390,
title = {Nonequivalent ensembles and metastability},
author = {Hugo Touchette and Richard S. Ellis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0501390},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
4 pages, RevTeX, 1 figure. Contribution to the Proceedings of the 31st Workshop of the International School of Solid State Physics ``Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity'', held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 2004. Edited by C. Tsallis, A. Rapisarda and C. Beck. To be published by World Scientific, 2005