On the microcanonical solution of a system of globally coupled rotators

Details On the microcanonical solution of a system of globally coupled rotators On the microcanonical solution of a system of globally coupled rotators

1998-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9810048v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Invited paper to the Denton workshop (April 3-6, 2000). 5 LaTeX pages, 2 figures. To appear in a special issue of "Chaos, Soli

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We study the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model, a system of $N$ fully coupled particles, in the microcanonical ensemble. We use the previously obtained free energy in the canonical ensemble to derive entropy as a function of energy, using Legendre transform techniques. The temperature-energy relation is found to coincide with the one obtained in the canonical ensemble and includes a {\it metastable} branch which represents spatially homogeneous states below the critical energy. "Water bag" states, with removed tails momentum distribution, lying on this branch, are shown to relax to equilibrium on a time which diverges linearly with $N$ in an energy region just below the phase transition.

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