Heat capacity for systems with excited-state quantum phase transitions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2017.01.022zbMATH Open1371.82013arXiv1612.00613OpenAlexW2560567714MaRDI QIDQ2406129FDOQ2406129

Authors: Pavel Cejnar, Pavel Stránský 

Publication date: 26 September 2017

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Heat capacities of model systems with finite numbers of effective degrees of freedom are evaluated using canonical and microcanonical thermodynamics. Discrepancies between both approaches, which are observed even in the infinite-size limit, are particularly large in systems that exhibit an excited-state quantum phase transition. The corresponding irregularity of the spectrum generates a singularity in the microcanonical heat capacity and affects smoothly the canonical heat capacity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00613

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zbMATH Keywords

canonical and microcanonical heat capacityexcited-state quantum phase transitionsthermodynamic systems with low numbers of degrees of freedom

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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