Comment on "Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures"
Quantum Gases
2014-07-17 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
In this comment we argue that negative absolute temperatures are a well-established concept for systems with bounded spectra. They are not only consistent with thermodynamics, but are even unavoidable for a consistent description of the thermal equilibrium of inverted populations.
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@article{arxiv.1407.4127,
title = {Comment on "Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures"},
author = {Ulrich Schneider and Stephan Mandt and Akos Rapp and Simon Braun and Hendrik Weimer and Immanuel Bloch and Achim Rosch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4127},
year = {2014}
}
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3 pages