Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1855301 | Annals of Physics | 2007 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
For sufficiently large but finite N independent spin-1/2 paramagnets in a constant magnetic field, the orientation of every spin has the same probability to be parallel or anti-parallel to that of the magnetic field. In our statistical ensemble treatment, all fundamental thermodynamic quantities fluctuate, including the entropy and temperature, and all fluctuations are gradually vanishing as the temperature itself approaches zero. Our approach presents a remedy of infinite temperature fluctuations and reproduces other reasonable results that are given by standard theory.
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Authors
X. Wang, Q.H. Liu,