Negative heat-capacity at phase-separations in microcanonical thermostatistics of macroscopic systems with either short or long-range interactions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 365, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 138-141

  Gross, D H E ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foundation of classical thermodynamics; Macroscopic systems; Negative heat capacity

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; SPECIFIC HEAT; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM ENGINES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CANONICAL ENSEMBLE; FOUNDATION OF CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; NEGATIVE HEAT CAPACITY;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 33645980945     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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