Phase transitions in systems with non-additive long-range interactions

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DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/10/P10003zbMATH Open1456.82376arXiv1310.3458MaRDI QIDQ3301408FDOQ3301408


Authors: Takashi Mori Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider spin systems with long-range interactions in nonadditive regime. When the non-additive scaling limit is employed, the energy and the entropy compete and the system exhibits some phase transitions. Such systems do not satisfy the additivity, which results in some unfamiliar properties related to phase transitions. In this paper, the concept of additivity and its consequence are explained and the recent progress on statistical mechanics of long-range interacting systems are reviewed. It is shown that the parameter space is clearly decomposed into the three regions according to the stability of the uniform state predicted by the mean-field theory. Based on this parameter space decomposition, recent results on the exactness of MF theory are explained. When the interaction is non-negative (ferromagnetic), the analysis of the mean-field theory is exact and a typical spin configuration is always uniform in the canonical ensemble. However, in the restricted canonical ensemble, i.e., the canonical ensemble with a restriction of the value of the magnetization, it is shown that the mean-field theory does not necessarily give the exact description of the system and phase transitions between the mean-field uniform states (MF phase) and the inhomogeneous states (non-MF phase) occur. A new finding is that when the interaction potential changes its sign depending on the distance, the non-MF phase appears even in the canonical ensemble.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3458




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