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Becoming Large, Becoming Infinite: The Anatomy of Thermal Physics and Phase Transitions in Finite Systems
David A. Lavis, Reimer Kuehn, Roman Frigg
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the anatomy of both thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, together with the relationships between their constituent parts. Based on…
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?
Roman Frigg, Charlotte Werndl
Gibbsian statistical mechanics (GSM) is the most widely used version of statistical mechanics among working physicists. Yet a closer look at GSM reveals that it is unclear what the…
Boltzmannian Equilibrium in Stochastic Systems
Charlotte Werndl, Roman Frigg
Equilibrium is a central concept of statistical mechanics. In previous work we introduced the notions of a Boltzmannian alpha-epsilon-equilibrium and a Boltzmannian gamma-varepsilo…
When Does a Boltzmannian Equilibrium Exist?
Charlotte Werndl, Roman Frigg
The received wisdom in statistical mechanics is that isolated systems, when left to themselves, approach equilibrium. But under what circumstances does an equilibrium state exist a…
Rethinking Boltzmannian Equilibrium
Charlotte Werndl, Roman Frigg
Boltzmannian statistical mechanics partitions the phase space of a system into macro-regions, and the largest of these is identified with equilibrium. What justifies this identific…
Reconceptualising equilibrium in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics and characterising its existence
Charlotte Werndl, Roman Frigg
In Boltzmannian statistical mechanics macro-states supervene on micro-states. This leads to a partitioning of the state space of a system into regions of macroscopically indistingu…