On the zero temperature limit of interacting corpora
Analysis of PDEs
2008-10-16 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We characterize the zero-temperature limits of minimal free energy states for interacting corpora -- that is, for objects with finitely many degrees of freedom, such as articulated rods. These limits are measures supported on zero-level-sets of the interaction potential. We describe a selection mechanism for the limits that is mediated by evanescent entropic contributions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.2573,
title = {On the zero temperature limit of interacting corpora},
author = {Peter Constantin and Andrej Zlatos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2573},
year = {2008}
}