Finite-size behaviour of the microcanonical specific heat

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/5/001zbMATH Open1062.82016arXivcond-mat/0411153OpenAlexW3098931192MaRDI QIDQ4654944FDOQ4654944

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)

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.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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