Extended gaussian ensemble solution and tricritical points of a system with long-range interactions

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2009-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/0910.0500v2

European Physical Journal B 75, 311-318 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, 5 eps figures. Title modified, sections rewritten, tricritical point calculations added. To appear in EPJB

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2010-00161-y

The gaussian ensemble and its extended version theoretically play the important role of interpolating ensembles between the microcanonical and the canonical ensembles. Here, the thermodynamic properties yielded by the extended gaussian ensemble (EGE) for the Blume-Capel (BC) model with infinite-range interactions are analyzed. This model presents different predictions for the first-order phase transition line according to the microcanonical and canonical ensembles. From the EGE approach, we explicitly work out the analytical microcanonical solution. Moreover, the general EGE solution allows one to illustrate in details how the stable microcanonical states are continuously recovered as the gaussian parameter $\gamma$ is increased. We found out that it is not necessary to take the theoretically expected limit $\gamma \to \infty$ to recover the microcanonical states in the region between the canonical and microcanonical tricritical points of the phase diagram. By analyzing the entropy as a function of the magnetization we realize the existence of unaccessible magnetic states as the energy is lowered, leading to a treaking of ergodicity.

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