Partitioning a macroscopic system into independent subsystems

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA75DBMaRDI QIDQ3303159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luigi Delle Site, Giovanni Ciccotti, Carsten Hartmann

Publication date 11 August 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10890

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

Abstract: We discuss the problem of partitioning a macroscopic system into a collection of independent subsystems. The partitioning of a system into replica-like subsystems is nowadays a subject of major interest in several field of theoretical and applied physics, and the thermodynamic approach currently favoured by practitioners is based on a phenomenological definition of an interface energy associated with the partition, due to a lack of easily computable expressions for a microscopic (i.e.~particle-based) interface energy. In this article, we outline a general approach to derive sharp and computable bounds for the interface free energy in terms of microscopic statistical quantities. We discuss potential applications in nanothermodynamics and outline possible future directions.

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