0 30 50 32 v 1 1 5 M ay 2 00 3 Topology and Phase Transitions : Theorem on a necessary relation
0 30 50 32 v 1 1 5 M ay 2 00 3 Topology and Phase Transitions : Theorem on a necessary relation
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0 30 50 32 v 1 1 5 May 2 00 3 拓扑和相变:必要关系定理
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2005
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L. Spinelli
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R. Franzosi;M. Pettini;L. Spinelli
We prove a theorem that establishes a necessary topological condition for the occurrence of first or second order phase transitions; in order for these to occur, the topology of certain submanifolds of configuration space must necessarily change at the phase transition point. The theorem applies to a wide class of smooth, finite-range and confining potentials V bounded below, describing systems confined in finite regions of space with continuously varying coordinates. The relevant configuration space submanifolds are the level sets {Σv := V −1 N (v)}v∈R of the potential function V , N is the number of degrees of freedom and v is the potential energy. The proof proceeds by showing that, under the assumption of diffeomorphicity of the equipotential hypersurfaces {Σv}v∈R in an arbitrary interval of values for v, the Helmoltz free energy is uniformly convergent in N to its thermodynamic limit, at least within the class of twice differentiable functions, in the corresponding interval of temperature.