The Antonov problem for rotating systems

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00050-6MaRDI QIDQ1860908zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 4 March 2003

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208230

zbMATH Keywords

self-gravitating gasBoltzmann statisticsstatistical equilibrium properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: We study the classical Antonov problem (of retrieving the statistical equilibrium properties of a self-gravitating gas of classical particles obeying Boltzmann statistics in space and confined in a spherical box) for a rotating system. It is shown that a critical angular momentum $lambd{a}_c$ (or, in the canonical language, a critical angular velocity $omeg{a}_c$) exists, such that for $lambda<lambd{a}_c$ the system's behaviour is qualitatively similar to that of a non-rotating gas, with a high energy disordered phase and a low energy collapsed phase ending with Antonov's limit, below which there is no equilibrium state. For $lambda>lambd{a}_c$, instead, the low-energy phase is characterized by the formation of two dense clusters (a ``binary star). Remarkably, no Antonov limit is found for $lambda>lambd{a}_c$. The thermodynamics of the system (phase diagram, caloric curves, local stability) is analyzed and compared with the recently-obtained picture emerging from a different type of statistics which forbids particle overlapping.

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