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arxiv: cond-mat/0504020 · v2 · submitted 2005-04-01 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech

Simple spin models with non-concave entropies

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Two simple spin models are studied to show that the microcanonical entropy can be a non-concave function of the energy, and that the microcanonical and canonical ensembles can give non-equivalent descriptions of the same system in the thermodynamic limit. The two models are simple variations of the classical paramagnetic spin model of non-interacting spins and are solved as easily as the latter model.

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