FUNDAMENTALNAYA I PRIKLADNAYA MATEMATIKA

(FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS)

2009, VOLUME 15, NUMBER 6, PAGES 167-199

Thermodynamic pressure and its fluctuations in a classical ideal gas of relativistic particles

Yu. G. Rudoy
Yu. P. Rybakov
I. Keita

Abstract

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The full and consecutive analysis is carried on for the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of an ideal gas of relativistic particles with Lorentz--Einstein dispersion law and arbitrary number of translational degrees of freedom. Gibbs statistical mechanics is used along with the Bogolyubov's concept of quasiaverages and the generalized version of Bogolyubov--Zubarev theorem in the classical regime well beyond the temperature of the quantum degeneracy. The general expressions are found for a pair of equations of state, namely thermic (for the pressure) and caloric (for the inner energy); the fluctuations of these quantities are also found: the compressibility and heat capacity, respectively. All expressions are found in closed form and studied in low- and high-temperature limits.

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