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Statistical System based on $p$-adic numbers

Statistical Mechanics 2021-06-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose statistical systems based on pp-adic numbers. In the systems, the Hamiltonian is a standard real number which is given by a map from the pp-adic numbers. Therefore we can introduce the temperature as a real number and calculate the thermodynamical quantities like free energy, thermodynamical energy, entropy, specific heat, etc. Although we consider a very simple system, which corresponds to a free particle moving in one dimensional space, we find that there appear the behaviors like phase transition in the system. Usually in order that a phase transition occurs, we need a system with an infinite number of degrees of freedom but in the system where the dynamical variable is given by pp-adic number, even if the degree of the freedom is unity, there might occur the phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.2105.02691,
  title  = {Statistical System based on $p$-adic numbers},
  author = {Mikoto Terasawa and Shin'ichi Nojiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.02691},
  year   = {2021}
}

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