Microcanonical thermodynamics : phase transitions in "small" systems

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Microcanonical thermodynamics : phase transitions in "small" systems

Title remainder

phase transitions in "small" systems

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Dieter H.E. Gross

Title variation

Phase transitions in "small" systems

Creator

• Gross, Dieter H. E
• Gross, Dieter H. E

Subject

• Statistical thermodynamics
• Thermodynamics

Language

eng

Summary

Boltzmann's formula S = In[W (E)] defines the microcanonical ensemble. The usual textbooks on statistical mechanics start with the microensemble but rather quickly switch to the canonical ensemble introduced by Gibbs. This has the main advantage of easier analytical calculations, but there is a price to pay - for example, phase transitions can only be defined in the thermodynamic limit of infinite system size. The question how phase transitions show up from systems with, say, 100 particles with an increasing number towards the bulk can only be answered when one finds a way to define and clas

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• World Scientific lecture notes in physics, 66

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index present

LC call number

QC311.5

LC item number

.G76 2001eb

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non fiction

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• standards specifications
• bibliography