2007/08/14 by Ricardo López‐Ruiz, Lopez-Ruiz, Ricardo, J. Sañudo +3
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Material Dynamics and Properties #Methodology (stat.ME) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Theoretical and Computational Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.1866
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In this paper, we consider the volume enclosed by the microcanonical ensemble\nin phase space as a statistical ensemble. This can be interpreted as an\nintermediate image between the microcanonical and the canonical pictures. By\nmaintaining the ergodic hypothesis over this ensemble, that is, the\nequiprobability of all its accessible states, the equivalence of this ensemble\nin the thermodynamic limit with the microcanonical and the canonical ensembles\nis suggested by means of geometrical arguments. The Maxwellian and the\nBoltzmann-Gibbs distributions are obtained from this formalism. In the\nappendix, the derivation of the Boltzmann factor from a new microcanonical\nimage of the canonical ensemble is also given.\n