Micro-canonical statistical mechanics of some non-extensive systems

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(01)00023-6zbMATH Open0991.82003arXivcond-mat/0004268OpenAlexW2088913430MaRDI QIDQ5954864FDOQ5954864

Authors: D. H. E. Gross 

Publication date: 5 February 2002

Published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Non-extensive systems do not allow to go to the thermodynamic limit. Therefore we have to reformulate statistical mechanics without invoking the thermodynamical limit. I.e. we have to go back to Pre-Gibbsian times. We show that Boltzmann's mechanical definition of entropy S as function of the conserved ``extensive variables energy E, particle number N etc. allows to describe even the most sophisticated cases of phase transitions unambiguously for ``small systems like nuclei, atomic clusters, and selfgravitating astrophysical systems: The rich topology of the curvature of S(E,N) shows the whole ``Zoo of transitions: transitions of 1.order including the surface tension at phase-separation, continuous transitions, critical and multi-critical points. The transitions are the ``catastrophes of the Laplace transform from the ``extensive to the ``intensive variables. Moreover, this classification of phase transitions is much more natural than the Yang-Lee criterion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0004268

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsstatistical mechanicsBoltzmann's mechanical definition of entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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