Ensemble inequivalence in systems with long-range interactions

Details Ensemble inequivalence in systems with long-range interactions Ensemble inequivalence in systems with long-range interactions

2001-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112124v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/35/2/308

Ensemble inequivalence has been observed in several systems. In particular it has been recently shown that negative specific heat can arise in the microcanonical ensemble in the thermodynamic limit for systems with long-range interactions. We display a connection between such behaviour and a mean-field like structure of the partition function. Since short-range models cannot display this kind of behaviour, this strongly suggests that such systems are necessarily non-mean field in the sense indicated here. We illustrate our results showing an application to the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model. We further show that a broad class of systems with non-integrable interactions are indeed of mean-field type in the sense specified, so that they are expected to display ensemble inequivalence as well as the peculiar behaviour described above in the microcanonical ensemble.

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