Is There a Temperature? (eBook)
XIV, 310 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4419-8041-0 (ISBN)
Temperature and heat, entropy and order or disorder are key classical concepts of physics. These are challenged by searching matter under extreme conditions, such as high (relativistic) energy, strong acceleration or gravitation, or unusual complexity due to long range correlations. In our quest for quark matter all these conditions might occur simultaneously. This book, strongly motivated by the authors' everyday research experiences in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collisions, aims to bundle these challenges to modern physics.
The main topic is at the heart of thermodynamics -- the very concept of temperature, its use and extensions. New developments on this issue are both applications and foundations of non-extensive statistics, as well as concepts borrowed from gravity and string theory to describe the surprisingly statistical behavior of elementary matter at the highest accelerator energies of the world.
The reader will benefit from bringing these new developments in one book together, by having the view of classical and modern concepts at the heart of physics across the problems related to high-energy, high acceleration and high complexity.
After reviewing the classical approaches, the author discusses the dual-gravity and non-extensive statistical aspects of heavy-ion collisions, describing these experimental findings with the use of the concept of temperature.
Temperature and heat, entropy and order or disorder are key classical concepts of physics. These are challenged by searching matter under extreme conditions, such as high (relativistic) energy, strong acceleration or gravitation, or unusual complexity due to long range correlations. In our quest for quark matter all these conditions might occur simultaneously. This book, strongly motivated by the authors' everyday research experiences in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collisions, aims to bundle these challenges to modern physics.The main topic is at the heart of thermodynamics -- the very concept of temperature, its use and extensions. New developments on this issue are both applications and foundations of non-extensive statistics, as well as concepts borrowed from gravity and string theory to describe the surprisingly statistical behavior of elementary matter at the highest accelerator energies of the world.The reader will benefit from bringing these new developments in one book together, by having the view of classical and modern concepts at the heart of physics across the problems related to high-energy, high acceleration and high complexity. After reviewing the classical approaches, the author discusses the dual-gravity and non-extensive statistical aspects of heavy-ion collisions, describing these experimental findings with the use of the concept of temperature.
Introduction.- How to measure the temperature.- How to interpret the temperature.- Fluctuating temperature.- Complications with the temperature.- The temperature of moving bodies.- The temperature of no return.- The temperature in quantum field theory.- Afterword.- Solutions.- References.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.2.2011 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Fundamental Theories of Physics | Fundamental Theories of Physics |
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 310 p. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik | |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | Black hole thermodynamics • Dissipation and heat • Interpreting temperature • measuring temperature • Principles of temperature • Temperature in field theory • temperature of disintegrating objects • Temperature of moving bodies • Thermal spectra from exploding matter • Thermodynamics in high-energy physics |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4419-8041-5 / 1441980415 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4419-8041-0 / 9781441980410 |
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