Thermodynamic q-distributions that aren`t
- Washington Univ., Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
Bosonic q-oscillators commute with themselves and so their free distribution is Planckian. In a cavity, their emission and absorption rates may grow or shrink-and even diverge-but they nevertheless balance to yield the Planck distribution via Einstein`s equilibrium method, (a careless application of which might produce spurious q-dependent distribution functions). This drives home the point that the black-body energy distribution is not a handle for distinguishing q-excitations from plain oscillators. A maximum cavity size is suggested by the inverse critical frequency of such emission/absorption rates at a given temperature, or a maximum temperature at a given frequency. To remedy fragmentation of opinion on the subject, we provide some discussion, context, and references.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38; FG06-91ER40614
- OSTI ID:
- 10178240
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-HEP-CP-93-39; CONF-9306203-1; ON: DE93017385; IN: UW/PT-93-05; HEP-TH/9305067; TRN: 93:018843
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. Prague colloquium on quantum groups,Prague (Czech Republic),24-26 Jun 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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