Negative specific heat, the thermodynamic limit, and ergodicity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Thirring, W ^a   Narnhofer, H ^a   Posch, H A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; SPECIFIC HEAT; THEOREM PROVING;

ERGODICITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0242353025     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.130601     Document Type: Article

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