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We question the microcanonical hypothesis, often made to account for the thermalization of complex closed quantum systems, on the specific example of a chain of two-level atoms optically driven by a resonant laser beam and strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Ruben Y. Cohen , Etienne Brion , Frédéric Grosshans

In this work we extend the applicability of the microcanonical ensemble simulation method, originally proposed to study the Ising model (A. H\"uller and M. Pleimling, Int. Journal of Modern Physics C, 13, 947 (2002),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Francisco Sastre , Ana Laura Benavides , José Torres-Arenas , Alejandro Gil-Villegas

We present general and rigorous results showing that the microcanonical and canonical ensembles are equivalent at all three levels of description considered in statistical mechanics - namely, thermodynamics, equilibrium macrostates, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-15 Hugo Touchette

This short paper presents a nontechnical introduction to the problem of nonequivalent microcanonical and canonical ensembles. Both the thermodynamic and the macrostate levels of definition of nonequivalent ensembles are introduced. The many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Touchette , R. S. Ellis , B. Turkington

The Blume-Capel model with infinite-range interactions presents analytical solutions in both canonical and microcanonical ensembles and therefore, its phase diagram is known in both ensembles. This model exhibits nonequivalent solutions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Rafael B. Frigori , Leandro G. Rizzi , Nelson A. Alves

The classical wave-particle Hamiltonian is considered in its generalized version, where two modes are assumed to interact with the co-evolving charged particles. The equilibrium statistical mechanics solution of the model is worked out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tarcísio N. Teles , Duccio Fanelli , Stefano Ruffo

Pairing transition at finite temperature was investigated by the shell model and BCS calculations. The definitive signature of pairing transition is identified by a "transition temperature" $T_t$ estimated from a "thermal" odd-even mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Kaneko , M. Hasegawa

We study fluctuations of the number of Bose condensed atoms in weakly interacting homogeneous and trapped gases. For a homogeneous system we apply the particle-number-conserving formulation of the Bogoliubov theory and calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zbigniew Idziaszek

Shortened abstract: Microcanonical equilibrium macrostates are characterized as the solutions of a constrained minimization problem, while canonical equilibrium macrostates are characterized as the solutions of a related, unconstrained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Costeniuc , R. S. Ellis , H. Touchette , B. Turkington

Contrary to many other translationally invariant one-dimensional models, the low-temperature phase for an attractively interacting one-dimensional Bose-gas (a quantum bright soliton) is stable against thermal fluctuations. However, treating…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-31 Christoph Weiss , Simon A. Gardiner , Bettina Gertjerenken

The statistical properties of non-interacting bosons and fermions confined in trapping potentials are most easily obtained when the system may exchange energy and particles with a large reservoir (grand-canonical ensemble). There are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrice Philippe , Jacques Arnaud , Laurent Chusseau

Equilibrium statistics of finite Hamiltonian systems is fundamentally described by the microcanonical ensemble (ME). Canonical, or grand-canonical partition functions are deduced from this by Laplace transform. Only in the thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. H. E. Gross

The thermodynamics of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the vicinity of infinite temperature is explicitly solved in the microcanonical ensemble by means of large-deviation techniques. A first-order phase transition between a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-08 Giacomo Gradenigo , Stefano Iubini , Roberto Livi , Satya N. Majumdar

In his pioneering work on negative specific heat, Walter Thirring in\-tro\-duced a model that is solvable in the microcanonical ensemble. Here, we give a complete description of the phase-diagram of this model in both the microcanonical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-15 Alessandro Campa , Lapo Casetti , Ivan Latella , Agustín Pérez-Madrid , Stefano Ruffo

We investigate pairing in a strongly interacting two-component Fermi gas with positive scattering length. In this regime, pairing occurs at temperatures above the superfluid critical temperature; unbound fermions and pairs coexist in…

The so-called $\chi^{2}$-superstatistics of Beck and Cohen (BC) is employed to investigate the infinite-range Blume-Capel model, a well-known representative system displaying inequivalence of canonical and microcanonical phase diagrams.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-07 Nelson A. Alves , Rafael B. Frigori

Finite temperature auxiliary field-based Quantum Monte Carlo methods, including Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) and Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), have historically assumed pivotal roles in the investigation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tong Shen , Yuan Liu , Yang Yu , Brenda Rubenstein

We investigate the relation between various statistical ensembles of finite systems. If ensembles differ at the level of fluctuations of the order parameter, we show that the equations of states can present major differences. A sufficient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Gulminelli , Ph. Chomaz

We consider a fixed number of noninteracting bosons in a harmonic trap. The determination of the exact microcanonical ground state number fluctuation is a difficult enterprise. There have been several theoretical attempts to solve this…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Muoi N. Tran

Introduced by Boltzmann under the name "monode," the microcanonical ensemble serves as the fundamental representation of equilibrium thermodynamics in statistical mechanics by counting all possible realizations of a system's states.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Roman Belousov , Jenna Elliott , Florian Berger , Lamberto Rondoni , Anna Erzberger