Thermodynamic versus statistical nonequivalence of ensembles for the mean-field Blume-Emery-Griffiths model

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 335, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 518-538

  Ellis, Richard S ^a   Touchette, Hugo ^b   Turkington, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canonical ensemble; Large deviations; Microcanonical ensemble; Nonequivalence of ensembles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CANONICAL ENSEMBLES; LARGE DEVIATIONS; MICROCANONICAL ENSEMBLES; NONEQUIVALENCE OF ENSEMBLES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 1642329881     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.11.028     Document Type: Article

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