Microcanonical phase transitions in small systems

Details Microcanonical phase transitions in small systems Microcanonical phase transitions in small systems

2007-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1082v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

When studying the thermodynamic properties of mesoscopic systems the most appropriate microcanonical entropy is the volume entropy, i.e. the logarithm of the volume of phase space enclosed by the hypersurface of constant energy. For systems with broken ergodicity, the volume entropy has discontinuous jumps at values of energy that correspond to separatrix trajectories. Simultaneously there is a convex intruder in the entropy function and a region of negative specific heat below such critical energies. We illustrate this with a simple model composed of a chain of 3 particles which interact via a Lennard-Jones potential.

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