• Title of article

    On a heuristic point of view related to quantum nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

  • Author/Authors

    Norton G. de Almeida، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    5772
  • To page
    5777
  • Abstract
    In this paper I propose a new way for counting the microstates of a system out of equilibrium. As, according to quantum mechanics, things happen as if a given particle can be found in more than one state at once, I extend this concept to propose the coherent access by a particle to the available states of a system. By coherent access I mean the possibility for the particle to act as if it is populating more than one microstate at once. This hypothesis has experimental implications, since the thermodynamical probability and, as a consequence, the Bose–Einstein distribution as well as the argument of the Boltzmann factor is modified.
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Record number

    872761