Thermodynamical Concepts and Systems  

Concepts and Effects > s.a. [thermodynamics]; coherent states; heat [including bath, engine]; time.
@ General references: Lavenda 95 [extreme situations].
@ Coarse-graining: Schulman & Gaveau FP(01) [scale, and order]; > s.a. entropy, lattice field theory.
@ Phase separation: Gross cm/04-in [and microcanonical statistics].
@ Geometry of state space: Santoro & Preston mp/05 [2 degrees of freedom, Weinhold metric]; Quevedo et al a0811 [ideal gas]; Pavlov & Sergeev TMP(08) [symplectic structure and Hamiltonian]; > s.a. black-hole thermodynamics.
@ Other concepts: Samiullah AJP(07)jul [reversible process].
> Other concepts: see Chemical Potential; Enthalpy; Equation of State; Free Energy; heat; specific heat; temperature; vacuum.
> Effects: see critical phenomena; entanglement; Joule Expansion; phase transitions; Thermoluminescence.

Results > s.a. energy [equipartition]; Gibbs-Duhem Relation; Maxwell Relations.
@ And macroscopic motion: Ghosh & Mukhopadhyay AJP(95)aug.

Specific Types of Systems > s.a. condensed matter [glass, liquids]; Gross-Neveu Model; Many-Body Systems.
@ Gases: Dib & Espinosa mp/00 [magnetized e gas and Hurwitz zeta functions]; Ciccariello JMP(04) [ideal Fermi and Bose gas]; Huang JHEP(09) [fermion and boson gases in non-commutative fuzzy spacetime].
@ Carnot cycle: Lee AJP(01)aug [for photon gas]; Arnaud et al phy/03/AJP [history].
@ Carnot cycle, quantum: Bender et al PRS(02)qp/01; Dillenschneider & Lutz a0803 [improved efficiency].
@ Chaotic systems: Beck & Schlögl 95 [III]; Srednicki JPA(96)cd/95 [fluctuations, quantized].
@ Geometric: Leuzzi & Parisi JPA(00) [2D tiling model].
@ Continuum systems: Safran 94 [surfaces/membranes]; Wilmanski 08; Muschik & von Borzeszkowski GRG(09) [relativistic].
@ Other systems: Jizba & Arimitsu AIP-cm/01, AP(04)cm/02 [fractal systems]; Leboeuf & Monastra AP(02) [small Fermi systems]; Gadiyar et al JPA(03)mp/02 [orthogonal and Hadamard matrices, entropy]; Boyer AJP(03)sep [harmonic oscillator, and black body radiation]; Hartmann et al cm/04-in [on nanoscale]; Gross cm/04 [small microcanonical]; Chrobok & von Borzeszkowski GRG(05) [fluids in curved spacetime]; Tarasov IJMPB(05)-a0706 [few-particle systems]; Linden et al a0908 [smallest possible refrigerators].
> Discrete systems: see cell complex; graphs; spin models.

Field Theories > s.a. string theory; types of field theories [thermal].
* Cosmology: While the energy of the universe has been established to be about 0.04 baryons, 0.24 dark matter and 0.72 dark energy, the cosmological entropy (S/k = about a thousand googols) is almost entirely, about (1 – 10–15), from black holes (only 10–15 from everything else).
@ Yang-Mills theory: Hofmann IJMPA(05)ht [and confinement], ht/05, ht/05, ht/05, MPLA(06), MPLA(07) [SU(2) and SU(3)], a0710; Panero a0907, Schaefer et al a0909-in [QCD].
@ Cosmology: Coule IJMPD(03) [brane cosmology]; Hosoya et al PRL(04)gq [information entropy]; Frampton et al CQG(09)-a0801, a0905 [relative contributions]; Berman IJTP(09), IJTP(09); Egan & Lineweaver a0909-ApJ [supermassive-black-hole contribution]; > s.a. general-relativistic cosmology and string cosmology.
@ Gravitation: Nielsen & Ninomiya PTP(06)ht/05 [and cosmological constant], JHEP(06)ht [and initial conditions]; Wang et al PRD(06)gq/05 [accelerated expansion]; Kim et al JCAP(08) [and evolution]; Tegmark in(08)-a0904 [applications of the second law]; > s.a. entropy.
> Other gravity-related systems: see black holes; dark energy; gravitational thermodynamics; horizons.


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