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Two approaches to describe the thermodynamics of a subsystem that interacts with a thermal bath are considered. Within the first approach, the mean system energy $E_{S}$ is identified with the expectation value of the system Hamiltonian,…

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We study the equivalence of microcanonical and canonical ensembles in continuous systems, in the sense of the convergence of the corresponding Gibbs measures. This is obtained by proving a local central limit theorem and a local large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Nicoletta Cancrini , Stefano Olla

The basic idea of a microscopic understanding of Thermodynamics is to derive its main features from a microscopic probability distribution. In such a vein, we investigate the thermal statistics of quasi-probabilities's semi-classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-20 F. Pennini , A. Plastino , M. C. Rocca

In this micro-canonical simulation the temperature and also the specific heat are determined as averages of expressions easy to implement. The XY-chain is studied for a test. The second order transition on a cubic lattice and the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wira B. Nurdin , Klaus-Dieter Schotte

Building on parallels between geometric quantum mechanics and classical mechanics, we explore an alternative basis for quantum thermodynamics that exploits the differential geometry of the underlying state space. We develop both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Fabio Anza , James P. Crutchfield

We formulate a canonical quantization of Equilibrium Thermodynamics by applying Dirac's theory of constrained systems. Thermodynamic variables are treated as conjugate pairs of coordinates and momenta, allowing extensive and intensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Luis F. Santos , Victor Hugo M. Ramos , Danilo Cius , Mario C. Baldiotti , Bárbara Amaral

A new method is proposed for a treatment of ideal quantum gases in the microcanonical ensemble near the thermodynamic limit. The method allows rigorous asymptotic calculations of the average number of particles and particle number…

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A great many observables seen in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions can be explained on the basis of statistical equilibrium. Calculations based on statistical equilibrium can be implemented in microcanonical ensemble (energy and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. B. Das , S. Das Gupta , W. G. Lynch , A. Z. Mekjian , M. B. Tsang

The emergence of statistical mechanics from quantum dynamics is a central problem in quantum many-body physics. Deriving observables aligned with the prediction of the canonical ensemble for a quantum system relies on the presence of a bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-05 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov , Andrei I. Pavlov

The phenomenon of partial equivalence of statistical ensembles is illustrated by discussing two examples, the mean-field XY and the mean-field spherical model. The configurational parts of these systems exhibit partial equivalence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-25 Lapo Casetti , Michael Kastner

We discuss different aspects of the present status of the Statistical Physics focusing the attention on the non-extensive systems, and in particular, on the so called small systems. Multimicrocanonical Distribution and some of its geometric…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-25 L. Velazquez , ; F. Guzman

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

In this chapter, we present a straightforward geometrical argument that in a certain way recalls us the equivalence between the canonical and the microcanonical ensembles in the thermodynamic limit for the particular context of physical…

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In contrast to the canonical case, microcanonical thermodynamic functions can show nonanalyticities also for finite systems. In this paper we contribute to the understanding of these nonanalyticities by working out the relation between…

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Equilibrium statistics of Hamiltonian systems is correctly described by the microcanonical ensemble. Classically this is the manifold of all points in the N-body phase space with the given total energy. Due to Boltzmann's principle,…

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We calculate the corrections due to noncommutativity of space on the Hamiltonian and then partition function of the canonical ensemble. We study some basic features of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics including equipartition and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-14 S. A. Alavi

We develop a geometric theory of phase transitions (PTs) for Hamiltonian systems in the microcanonical ensemble. This theory allows to reformulate Bachmann's classification of PTs for finite-size systems in terms of geometric properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-29 Loris Di Cairano

We compare phase transition(-like) phenomena in small model systems for both microcanonical and canonical ensembles. The model systems correspond to a few classical (non-quantum) point particles confined in a one-dimensional box and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörn Dunkel , Stefan Hilbert