Ensemble inequivalence: A formal approach

Details Ensemble inequivalence: A formal approach Ensemble inequivalence: A formal approach

2001-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112131v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, no figures, given at the NEXT2001 conference on non-extensive thermodynamics

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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 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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