Fluctuations of intensive quantities in statistical thermodynamics (Q280693): Difference between revisions

In the present paper, it is considered quasithermodynamics, the intensive quantities and the specific extensive quantities enter the theory in a very symmetric way. Mainly, it is focused on a problem of extension of this symmetry to statistical thermodynamics. Note that the equilibrium case is considered. The basic idea is to perceive the fluctuations of intensive quantities as fluctuations of specific extensive quantities in another auxiliary system. A toy model of thermodynamic duality is provided, and a generalized Pauli problem is considered. We note that quasithermodynamics is the theory of fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities if the number of particles in the system, is large, but not ``huge'', and statistical thermodynamics is the microscopic theory of heat associated with such concepts as the Gibbs distribution and the constant.