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We present a new molecular dynamics algorithm for sampling the canonical distribution. In this approach the velocities of all the particles are rescaled by a properly chosen random factor. The algorithm is formally justified and it is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-31 Giovanni Bussi , Davide Donadio , Michele Parrinello

The microcanonical ensemble has long been a starting point for the development of thermodynamics from statistical mechanics. However, this approach presents two problems. First, it predicts that the entropy is only defined on a discrete set…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 William Griffin , Michael Matty , Robert H. Swendsen

We derive the Planck law from a classical variational principle over probability densities, without invoking quantum states, quantized oscillator energies, or ensemble averages. We construct a generalized free energy functional involving…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe

We develop a regularization of the quantum microcanonical ensemble, called a Gaussian ensemble, which can be used for derivation of the canonical ensemble from microcanonical principles. The derivation differs from the usual methods by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jani Lukkarinen

The non-extensive canonical ensemble theory is reconsidered with the method of Lagrange multipliers by maximizing Tsallis entropy, with the constraint that the normalized term of Tsallis' $q-$average of physical quantities, the sum $\sum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-18 Ke-Ming Shen , Ben-Wei Zhang , En-Ke Wang

The problem of factorization of a nonextensive probability distribution is discussed. It is shown that, in general, the correlation energy between the correlated subsystems in the canonical composite system can not be neglected even in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. A. Wang , M. Pezeril , L. Nivanen , A. Le Mehaute

Thermodynamics and its quantum counterpart are traditionally described with statistical ensembles. Canonical typicality has related statistical mechanics for a system to ensembles of global energy eigen- states of system and its environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Sebastian Gemsheim , Jan M. Rost

Grand canonical and canonical ensembles become equivalent in the thermodynamic limit, but when the system size is finite the results obtained in the two ensembles deviate from each other. In many important cases, the canonical ensemble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-26 D. S. Kosov , M. F. Gelin , A. I. Vdovin

Macroscopic thermodynamics of equilibrium is constructed for systems obeying power-law canonical distributions. With this, the connection between macroscopic thermodynamics and microscopic statistical thermodynamics is generalized. This is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sumiyoshi Abe , A. K. Rajagopal

We show that for the ground state of a one dimensional free electron gas on a circle the analytic expression for the canonical ensemble partition function can be easily derived from the density matrix by assuming that the thermodynamic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-30 Riccardo Fantoni

Tsallis has suggested a nonextensive generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy, the maximization of which gives a generalized canonical distribution under special constraints. In this brief report we show that the generalized canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-28 Brian R. La Cour , William C. Schieve

Application of the standard canonical quantization rules of quantum field theory to macroscopic electromagnetism has encountered obstacles due to material dispersion and absorption. This has led to a phenomenological approach to macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. G. Philbin

We present here a set of lecture notes on quantum thermodynamics and canonical typicality. Entanglement can be constructively used in the foundations of statistical mechanics. An alternative version of the postulate of equal a priori…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 Paolo Facchi , Giancarlo Garnero

We derive some Quantum Central Limit Theorems for expectation values of macroscopically coarse-grained observables, which are functions of coarse-grained hermitean operators. Thanks to the hermicity constraints, we obtain positive-definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Tien D. Kieu

We develop the theory of canonical-dissipative systems, based on the assumption that both the conservative and the dissipative elements of the dynamics are determined by invariants of motion. In this case, known solutions for conservative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank Schweitzer , Werner Ebeling , Benno Tilch

We show that within classical statistical mechanics it is possible to naturally derive power law distributions which are of Tsallis type. The only assumption is that microcanonical distributions have to be separable from of the total system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rudolf Hanel , Stefan Thurner

A new formulation of potential scattering in quantum mechanics is developed using a close structural analogy between partial waves and the classical dynamics of many non-interacting fields. Using a canonical formalism we find non-linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Hussein , W. Li , S. Wuester

We show that an arbitrary probability distribution can be represented in exponential form. In physical contexts, this implies that the equilibrium distribution of any classical or quantum dynamical system is expressible in grand canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-25 Dorje C. Brody

The canonical statistics describes the statistical properties of an open system by assuming its coupling with the heat bath infinitesimal in comparison with the total energy in thermodynamic limit. In this paper, we generally derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 D. Z. Xu , Sheng-Wen Li , X. F. Liu , C. P. Sun

Lagrange and Hamilton equations for thermodynamic evolution near equilibrium as well as Schrodinger-like equation for the non-equilibrium case are obtained extending the CPDQ Principle (Constancy of the product momentum-oordinate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Adrian Faigon