Does the Boltzmann principle need a dynamical correction?

DOI10.1007/S10955-004-3454-2MaRDI QIDQ852135zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Artur B. Adib

Publication date 27 November 2006

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204584

zbMATH Keywords

adiabatic invarianceBrownian motionbulk entropyFermi-Pasta-Ulamlow-dimensional chaosnoncanonical distributionquartic interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: In an attempt to derive thermodynamics from classical mechanics, an approximate expression for the equilibrium temperature of a finite system has been derived [M. Bianucci, R. Mannella, B. J. West, and P. Grigolini, Phys. Rev. E 51, 3002 (1995)] which differs from the one that follows from the Boltzmann principle S = k log (Omega(E)) via the thermodynamic relation 1/T= dS/dE by additional terms of "dynamical" character, which are argued to correct and generalize the Boltzmann principle for small systems (here Omega(E) is the area of the constant-energy surface). In the present work, the underlying definition of temperature in the Fokker-Planck formalism of Bianucci et al. is investigated and shown to coincide with an approximate form of the equipartition temperature. Its exact form, however, is strictly related to the "volume" entropy S = k log (Phi(E)) via the thermodynamic relation above for systems of any number of degrees of freedom (Phi(E) is the phase space volume enclosed by the constant-energy surface). This observation explains and clarifies the numerical results of Bianucci et al. and shows that a dynamical correction for either the temperature or the entropy is unnecessary, at least within the class of systems considered by those authors. Explicit analytical and numerical results for a particle coupled to a small chain (N~10) of quartic oscillators are also provided to further illustrate these facts.

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