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

✍ Scribed by Norton G. de Almeida

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 307 KB
• Volume: 387
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.06.020

✦ Synopsis

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.