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Thermodynamic stability of multicomponent ideal gas

Soft Condensed Matter 2018-05-16 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We present an example counter to the widely-accepted concept on equilibrium states that "Any thermodynamic equilibrium state of two component systems is determined by specifying 4 thermodynamic variables that include at least 1 extensive variable." which is equivalent to Gibbs' phase rule. We demonstrate this fact by thought experiments on an A/B binary mixture where temperature, pressure and chemical potential of the A-species are chosen as the 3 intensive variables while the number of B-molecules is chosen as the 1 extensive variable. Our findings also apply to M(>2)M (>2)-component systems.

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@article{arxiv.1805.05407,
  title  = {Thermodynamic stability of multicomponent ideal gas},
  author = {Yuki Norizoe and Toshihiro Kawakatsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.05407},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure