Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2005-04-01
Molecular Physics 103, 3025 (2005)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Contribution to the Special Issue of Molecular Physics in honor of Ben Widom
Scientific paper
10.1080/00268970500185989
We look at the properties of clusters of order parameter at critical points in thermal systems and consider their significance to statistical-mechanical ground rules. These properties have been previously obtained through the saddle-point approximation in a coarse-grained partition function. We examine both static and dynamical aspects of a single large cluster and indicate that these properties fall outside the canonical Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) scheme. Specifically: 1) The faster than exponential growth with cluster size of the space-integrated order parameter suggests nonextensivity of the BG entropy but extensivity of a q-entropy expression. 2) The finding that the time evolution of the order parameter is described by the dynamics of an intermittent nonlinear map implies an atypical sensitivity to initial conditions compatible with q-statistics and displays an 'aging' scaling property. 3) Both, the approach to criticality and the infinite-size cluster limit at criticality manifest through a crossover from canonical to q-statistics and we discuss the nonuniform convergence associated to these features. Key words: critical clusters, saddle-point approximation, q-entropy, intermittency, aging
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