On first-order phase transition in microcanonical and canonical non-extensive systems

Details On first-order phase transition in microcanonical and canonical non-extensive systems On first-order phase transition in microcanonical and canonical non-extensive systems

2001-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101311v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00159-5

Two examples of Microcanonical Potts models, 2-dimensional nearest neighbor and mean field, are considered via exact enumeration of states and analytical asymptotic methods. In the interval of energies corresponding to a first order phase transition, both of these models exhibit a convex dip in the entropy vs energy plot and a region with negative specific heat within the dip. It is observed that in the nearest neighbor model the dip flattens and disappears as the lattice size grows, while in the mean field model the dip persists even in the limit of an infinite system. If formal transitions from microcanonical to canonical ensembles and back are performed for an infinite but non-extensive system, the convex dip in the microcanonical entropy plot disappears.

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