1993/05/31 by S. Vokos, STAMATIS VOKOS, C. Zachos +1 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732394000022
published as Mod.Phys.Lett.A9:1-10,1994 · 7 pages, UW/PT-93-05, ANL-HEP-CP-93-39, Latex-Revtex [ Augmented list of references, sound and not. ]
arxiv created 1993/11/28 · openalex publication_date 1994/01/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Bosonic q-oscillators commute with themselves and so their free distribution is Planckian. In a cavity, their emission and absorption rates may grow or shrink – and even diverge – but they nevertheless balance to yield the Planck distribution via Einstein’s equilibrium method, (a careless application of which might produce spurious q-dependent distribution functions). This drives home the point that the black-body energy distribution is not a handle for distinguishing q-excitations from plain oscillators. A maximum cavity size is suggested by the inverse critical frequency of such emission/absorption rates at a given temperature, or a maximum temperature at a given frequency. To remedy fragmentation of opinion on the subject, we provide some discussion, context, and references.