2010/09/28 by Agata Fronczak, Fronczak, Agata
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Theoretical and Computational Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1009.5534
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A completely new approach to the problem of energy distribution in statistical mechanics is developed that results in a general, combinatorial formula for the density of states. Relying on the approach the energy equipartition principle is reexamined and a new perspective on the theory of phase transitions (as resulting from nontrivial patterns of energy distribution characterized by the well-defined classes of forbidden microstates) is given.