Negating Negative Heat Capacity in Nanoclusters

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dc.creatorMichaelian, Karo
dc.creatorSantamaria-Holek, Ivan
dc.date2007-01-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:41:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:41:12Z
dc.descriptionIt is shown that negative heat capacity in nanoclusters is an artifact of applying equilibrium thermodynamic formalism on a small system trapped out of equilibrium in a particular structural motif representing only part of the energetically available phase space volume. Trapping may occur in either the canonical or microcanonical ensemble, but it is unavoidable in the microcanonical. A more general consequence of trapping is that all macroscopic quantities determined for nanoclusters will depend on the initial conditions.
dc.description11 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701357
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701357
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/122019
dc.subjectMaterials Science
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleNegating Negative Heat Capacity in Nanoclusters
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