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Critical Temperatures from Domain-Wall Microstate Counting: A Topological Solution for the Potts Universality Class
David Vaknin
We derive a universal relation for the critical temperatures of the -state Potts model based on the counting of domain-wall microstates. By balancing interface energy against co…
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Temperature as a Dynamically Maintained Steady State: Photonic Mechanisms, Maintenance Cost, and the Limits of the Infinite-Reservoir Idealization
David Vaknin
Classical thermodynamics treats temperature as a state variable characterizing systems in equilibrium with idealized infinite reservoirs. We argue that this framing, while computat…