Bounded thermal weights from a discrete Boltzmann factor

Abdelmalek Boumali, Yassine Chargui

The discrete Boltzmann factor $B_E({\hat{I}}_n^2)=(1-bE{)}^n$, introduced by Chung, Hassanabadi, and Boumali, provides a lattice regularization of the canonical weight $e^{-{\hat{I}}^{2}E}$ and imposes…