Overview
- Explores a single concept of quantitative temperature across many research subfields of physical research and phenomena
- Provides readers with the tools to better understand the notion of temperature/entropy in extreme cases such as relativity or on very small scales
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 171)
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Is There a Temperature?
Book Subtitle: Conceptual Challenges at High Energy, Acceleration and Complexity
Authors: Tamás Sándor Biró
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8041-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8040-3Published: 09 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2804-6Published: 19 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8041-0Published: 03 February 2011
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 310
Topics: Thermodynamics, Physical Chemistry, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Classical and Continuum Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics