English

Geometric Microcanonical Thermodynamics for Systems with First Integrals

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-04 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

In the general case of a many-body Hamiltonian system, described by an autonomous Hamiltonian HH, and with K0K\geq 0 independent conserved quantities, we derive the microcanonical thermodynamics. By a simple approach, based on the differential geometry, we derive the microcanonical entropy and the derivatives of the entropy with respect to the conserved quantities. In such a way, we show that all the thermodynamical quantities, as the temperature, the chemical potential or the specific heat, are measured as a microcanonical average of the appropriate microscopic dynamical functions that we have explicitly derived. Our method applies also in the case of non-separable Hamiltonians, where the usual definition of kinetic temperature, derived by the virial theorem, does not apply.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1204.6144,
  title  = {Geometric Microcanonical Thermodynamics for Systems with First Integrals},
  author = {Roberto Franzosi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.6144},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-21T20:55:34.166Z