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According to the standard prescriptions, zero-temperature string theories can be extended to finite temperature by compactifying their time directions on a so-called "thermal circle" and implementing certain orbifold twists. However, the…
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We study non-canonical relaxation in a composite cold atoms system, consisting of subsystems that possess negative microcanonical specific heat. The system exhibits pre-thermalization far away from integrability due to the appearance of a…
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Do negative absolute temperatures matter physics and specifically Statistical Physics? We provide evidence that we can certainly answer positively to this vexata quaestio. The great majority of models investigated by statistical mechanics…