Statistical Mechanics of systems with long range interactions

DOI10.1063/1.2839123zbMATH Open1453.82027arXiv0811.3120OpenAlexW3100717469MaRDI QIDQ5118765FDOQ5118765

David Mukamel

Publication date: 26 August 2020

Published in: AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recent theoretical studies of statistical mechanical properties of systems with long range interactions are briefly reviewed. In these systems the interaction potential decays with a rate slower than 1/r^d at large distances r in d dimensions. As a result, these systems are non-additive and they display unusual thermodynamic and dynamical properties which are not present in systems with short range interactions. In particular, the various statistical mechanical ensembles are not equivalent and the microcanonical specific heat may be negative. Long range interactions may also result in breaking of ergodicity, making the maximal entropy state inaccessible from some regions of phase space. In addition, in many cases long range interactions result in slow relaxation processes, with time scales which diverge in the thermodynamic limit. Various models which have been found to exhibit these features are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3120

zbMATH Keywords

long range interactionsunusual thermodynamic properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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