First-order phase transitions: equivalence between bimodalities and the Yang-Lee theorem

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2003.01.001MaRDI QIDQ1414481zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Gulminelli, P. Chomaz

Publication date 23 November 2003

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210456

zbMATH Keywords

order-parameter distributionpartition-sum zerosthermodynamic limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

Abstract: First order phase transitions in finite systems can be defined through the bimodality of the distribution of the order parameter. This definition is equivalent to the one based on the inverted curvature of the thermodynamic potential. Moreover we show that it is in a one to one correspondence with the Yang Lee theorem in the thermodynamic limit. Bimodality is a necessary and sufficient condition for zeroes of the partition sum in the control intensive variable complex plane to be distributed on a line perpendicular to the real axis with a uniform density, scaling like the number of particles.

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