Negative temperature: further extensions
arXiv:2104.01013 · doi:10.1134/S0021364021090058
Abstract
This paper is motivated by the recent paper M. Baldovin, S. Iubini, R. Livi and A. Vulpiani, Statistical mechanics of systems with negative temperature, arXiv:2103.12572. The authors suggest that negative absolute temperatures are consistent with equilibrium thermodynamics. This is correct, if the environment also has negative temperature. Otherwise such states represent the transient though maybe long-lived metastable effects. Here we consider the extension of the negative temperatures to the relativistic systems. We show that the negative state is possible in the Dirac vacuum, which is obtained by the symmetry transformation from the conventional Dirac sea. If such vacuum with inverse population fills the whole Universe, its thermodynamics determined by negative temperatures becomes equilibrium.
arXiv comment3 pages, no figures, accepted in JETP letters
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