Statistical physics when the heat bath is large but finite

Won Sang Chung and Hassan Hassanabadi

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, vol. 532, issue C

Abstract: In this paper we consider the thermodynamics when the heat bath is large but finite. We propose the deformed Boltzmann factor for a finite bath. With this modified Boltzmann factor we discuss some thermodynamics problems such as the classical oscillator, kinetic theory of an ideal gas, photon statistics and two-level system when the heat bath is large but finite. We compare our results with thermodynamics when the heat bath is infinite.

Keywords: Finite heat bath; Modified Boltzmann factor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.121720

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