Comment on "Failure of the work-Hamiltonian connection for free-energy calculations" by Jose M. G. Vilar and J. Miguel Rubi

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2008-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/0808.2855v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 098903 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

To appear in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.098903

I point out that the arguments raised by Vilar and Rubi against the
work-Hamiltonian connection in free-energy calculations imply, if correct, the
failure of the statistical mechanical expression of the thermodynamical
free-energy via the logarithm of the partition function.

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