Equivalence and nonequivalence of ensembles: Thermodynamic, macrostate, and measure levels
arXiv:1403.6608 · doi:10.1007/s10955-015-1212-2
Abstract
We present general and rigorous results showing that the microcanonical and canonical ensembles are equivalent at all three levels of description considered in statistical mechanics - namely, thermodynamics, equilibrium macrostates, and microstate measures - whenever the microcanonical entropy is concave as a function of the energy density in the thermodynamic limit. This is proved for any classical many-particle systems for which thermodynamic functions and equilibrium macrostates exist and are defined via large deviation principles, generalizing many previous results obtained for specific classes of systems and observables. Similar results hold for other dual ensembles, such as the canonical and grand-canonical ensembles, in addition to path ensembles used for describing nonequilibrium systems driven in steady states.
v1: 29 pages, 2 figures; v2: 31 pages, references added, minor changes to text and proofs, close to accepted version
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