Complex Temperatures and Phase Transitions
- 1 November 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 7 (11), 2000-2005
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1704882
Abstract
The thermodynamic limit is considered for complex temperatures, and a picture of a phase transition, similar to the Yang‐Lee picture, is proposed. For certain cases a representation of the partition function as an infinite product is obtained. Some simple models are considered.Keywords
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