Finite-size behaviour of the microcanonical specific heat

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/5/001MaRDI QIDQ4654944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Behringer, M. Pleimling, Alfred Hüller

Publication date 10 March 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411153

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: For models which exhibit a continuous phase transition in the thermodynamic limit a numerical study of small systems reveals a non-monotonic behaviour of the microcanonical specific heat as a function of the system size. This is in contrast to a treatment in the canonical ensemble where the maximum of the specific heat increases monotonically with the size of the system. A phenomenological theory is developed which permits to describe this peculiar behaviour of the microcanonical specific heat and allows in principle the determination of microcanonical critical exponents.

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