Thermodynamical relations for systems in contact with finite heat baths

F.Q. Potiguar and U.M.S. Costa

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 344, issue 3, 614-618

Abstract: We obtain the relations between macroscopic thermodynamical properties and microscopic ensemble averages of a system in contact with a heat bath which has a finite number of degrees of freedom. Our approach is based on the geometry of the accessible phase space of the system. By using a suitable definition of temperature for such kind of system (energy equipartition theorem), it is shown that the relations obtained here have the same dependence on the system's partition function Z1 as in Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics.

Keywords: Canonical ensemble; Finite heat baths (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.06.040

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