IANIGLA   20881
INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGIA, GLACIOLOGIA Y CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Thermostatistics of small systems: exact results in the microcanonical formalism
Autor/es:
DALÍA S. BERTOLDI; MIRANDA, E. N.
Revista:
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Editorial:
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2013 vol. 34 p. 1075 - 1087
ISSN:
0143-0807
Resumen:
Several approximations are made to study the microcanonical formalism that
are valid in the thermodynamics limit. Usually it is assumed that: (1) Stirling?s
approximation can be used to evaluate the number of microstates; (2) the surface
entropy can be replaced by the volume entropy; and (3) derivatives can be used
even if the energy is not a continuous variable. It is also assumed that the
results obtained from the microcanonical formalism agree with those from the
canonical one. However, it is not clear if these assumptions are right for very
small systems (10?100 particles). To answer this question, two systems with
exact solutions (the Einstein model of the solid and the two-level system) have
been solved with and without these approximations.