Microcanonical ensemble Definition and 18 Threads

In the discussion of the pressure in macrocanonical ensemble, I found in textbook that: ##dW = \bar p dV## (##dW## is in fact d_bar W, yet I can't type the bar) The derivation goes like: ##\bar p = \frac{1}{Z} \sum_{r} e^{-\beta E_r} (-\frac{\partial E_r}{\partial V}) = ... = \frac{1}{\beta}...

I have a problem to understand why this problem is microcanonical ensemble problem? And why entropy is calculated as S(E,N,V)=\ln \Gamma(E,N,V) When in microcanonical ensemble we spoke about energies between ##E## and ##E+\Delta E##.

I don't know how to solve that integral, and to calculate the number of microstates first, then aply convolution and then integrate to find the volume of the phase space seems to be more complicated. Any clue on how to solve this? Thank you very much.

Homework Statement Consider a gas sufficiently diluted containing N identical molecules of mass m in a box of dimensions Lx, Ly, Lz. Calculate the probability of finding the molecules in any of their quantum states. Calculate the energy of each quantum state εr, as a function of the quantum...

I simulated a microcanonical ensemble of 10 ideal gas particles in one dimension and yielded the expected normal distribution of velocities. However, I still did not get how the algorithm works. The demon has non-negative energy content and the demon together with the system constitutes a closed...

Homework Statement Why is it that the microcanonical partition function is ##W = Tr\{\delta(E - \hat{H})\}##? As in, for example, Mattis page 62? Moreover, what's the meaning of taking the Dirac delta of an operator like ##\hat{H}##? Homework Equations The density of states at fixed energy is...

So from what I understood from some coure notes I've been reading, a microcanonical ensemble is a situation where we have an isolated system in thermal equilibrium with a constant given N,V,E - particles, volume,total energy. I'm a bit confused. How I understood 'ensemble' is as a set of all...

Ref: R.K Pathria Statistical mechanics (third edition sec 5.2A) First it is argued that the density matrix for microcanonical will be diagonal with all diagonal elements equal in the energy representation. Then it is said that this general form should remain the same in all representations. i.e...

Ref: R.K Pathria Statistical mechanics (third edition sec 5.2A) First it is argued that the density matrix for microcanonical will be diagonal with all diagonal elements equal in the energy representation. Then it is said that this general form should remain the same in all representations. i.e...

Hello, I was wondering if it is a well known fact that the microcanonical ensemble (i.e. W = \int \delta(\mathcal H(\vec x, \vec p) - E) \mathrm d \vec x \mathrm d \vec p) does not weight every point equally, in the sense that in the integral (which was just quoted) some points on the energy...

hi, usually the density operator for the microcanonical ensemble is given by \rho = \sum_n p_n|n><n| where |n> are energy eigenstates and p_n is the probability that our system is in this state. p_n = const. if the energy corresponding to |n> is in the energy inteval (E,E+∆E)...

Homework Statement A system consists of 3N (N >> 1) independent, identical, but distinguishable one-dimensional oscillators. This is relevant in that the atoms in a solid are sitting around their equilibrium positions. Assume that every atom constitutes an independent oscillator and all...

Hi all, I was brushing up on statistical ensembles, and I found something apparently weird in microcanonical treatment of the ideal "classical" gas. I'm mainly following K. Huang's Statistical Mechanics. So there's a first approach to the problem in which the MC entropy is evaluated via an...

Hi all, this is about problem 8.2 in Huang's Statistical Mechanics. I think I've been able to solve it, but the solution raised a question about the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. So first I provide my solution to the problem, then discuss the apparently weird point. Homework...

Homework Statement The entropy in the microcanonical ensemble is defined in terms of omega(E), the number of states such that total energy be E. compute (as a function of total energy E,total number of particles N and magnetic field h) N+ the number of particles i with sigma= +1 and N- where...

Homework Statement An ice sheet forms on a lake. The air above the lake is at \Delta T (<0), while the water below the ice sheet is at 0°C. Assume that the heat of fusion of the water freezing on the lower surface is conducted through the sheet to the air above. How much time does it take to...

Four spin1 particles are rigidly fixed at four corners of a square. 1. What will be the entropy. 2. A field is now applied that produces an energy difference between m=0 and m=1,-1 states of each of each particle. Take m=0 as the ground state and find the free energy at temperature T. 3. Find...

Homework Statement In a microcanonical ensemble is entropy constant? Since there is only one macrostate of energy. The Attempt at a Solution I think so.