Thermodynamic Potentials for Systems at Negative Absolute Temperatures
- 1 September 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 119 (5), 1443-1444
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.119.1443
Abstract
It is shown on purely phenomenological grounds that for systems in equilibrium at negative absolute temperatures all the usual thermodynamic potentials, and in particular the energy, attain a maximum value instead of a minimum value.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Conditions for Equilibrium at Negative Absolute TemperaturesPhysical Review B, 1959
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics at Negative Absolute TemperaturesPhysical Review B, 1956