A clear difference in the enthalpy changes derived from spectroscopic and calorimetric measurements has recently been shown. The exact interpretation of this deviation varied from study to study, but it was generally attributed to the non-two-state transition and heat capacity change. Although the temperature-dependent thermodynamics of the duplex formation was often implied, systemic and exten...

wear is a complicated phenomenon caused by the relative movement of two contacting surfaces compressed together by a normal force. prediction of the wear, in most cases, requires various experiments and microstructural characterization of the contacting surfaces. mathematical models based on physical concepts could provide considerable help in understanding the physical behavior and hence the p...

We show that in small and low density systems described by a lattice gas model with fixed number of particles the location of a thermodynamic phase transition can be detected by means of the distribution of the fluctuations related to an order parameter which is chosen to be the size of the largest fragment. We discuss problems related with the size of the system and the implications of this fa...

We consider for an anyon gas its thermodynamic properties taking into account the fractal statistics obtained by us recently. This approach describes the anyonic excitations in terms of equivalence classes labeled by fractal parameter or Hausdorff dimension h. An exact equation of state is obtained in the high-temperature and low-temperature limits, for gases with a constant density of states. ...

Different models of random walks on the dual graphs of compact urban structures are considered. Analysis of access times between streets helps to detect the city modularity. The statistical mechanics approach to the ensembles of lazy random walkers is developed. The complexity of city modularity can be measured by an information-like parameter which plays the role of an individual fingerprint o...

We propose a relationship between thermodynamic phase transitions and groundstate quantum phase transitions in systems with variable Hamiltonian parameters. It is based on a link between zeros of the canonical partition function at complex temperatures and exceptional points of a quantum Hamiltonian in the complexextended parameter space. This approach is applied in the interacting boson model,...

We measure the thermodynamic magnetization of a low-disordered, strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system in silicon in perpendicular magnetic fields. A new, parameter-free method is used to directly determine the spectrum characteristics (Landé g factor and the cyclotron mass) when the Fermi level lies outside the spectral gaps and the interlevel interactions between quasiparticles a...

Experimentally it is well known that diamond and zinc-blend semiconductors show an "unusual" (i.e. , negative) thermal expansion at about 100 K. We performed density-functional-theory calculations of thermodynamic potentials (i.e. , total energies and entropies) for perfect crystals, to study the temperature dependence of the lattice parameter. The origin of the negative expansion eff'ect is tr...

The self-referential method [M. B. Sweatman, Phys. Rev. E 72, 016711 (2005)] for calculating the free energy of crystalline solids via molecular simulation is combined with thermodynamic integration to produce a technique that is convenient and efficient. Results are presented for the chemical potential of hard sphere and Lennard-Jones face centered cubic crystals that agree well with this prev...

We study the properties of a thermodynamic system having the symmetry of a quantum group and interacting with a harmonic potential. We calculate the dependence of the chemical potential, heat capacity and spatial distribution of the gas on the quantum group parameter q and the number of spatial dimensions D. In addition, we consider a fourth-order interaction in the quantum group fields Ψ, and ...