Mean Field Theory of Spherical Gravitating Systems

Details Mean Field Theory of Spherical Gravitating Systems Mean Field Theory of Spherical Gravitating Systems

2000-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007065v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.62.5783

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of self-gravitating systems. Using mean field theory, here we investigate the equilibrium properties of several spherically symmetric model systems confined in a finite domain consisting of either point masses, or rotating mass shells of different dimension. We establish a direct connection between the spherically symmetric equilibrium states of a self-gravitating point mass system and a shell model of dimension 3. We construct the equilibrium density functions by maximizing the entropy subject to the usual constraints of normalization and energy, but we also take into account the constraint on the sum of the squares of the individual angular momenta, which is also an integral of motion for these symmetric systems. Two new statistical ensembles are introduced which incorporate the additional constraint. They are used to investigate the possible occurrence of a phase transition as the defining parameters for each ensemble are altered.

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