Effective temperature for finite systems
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Authors
Huntsman, Steve
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Advisors
Date of Issue
2009-04-29
Date
24 Apr 2009
Publisher
ArXiv
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Abstract
Under the Ansatz that the occupation times of a system with finitely many states are given by the Gibbs distribution, an effective temperature is uniquely determined (up to a choice of scale), and may be computed de novo, without any reference to a Hamiltonian for empirically accessible systems. As an example, the calculation of the effective temperature for a classical Bose gas is outlined and applied to the analysis of computer network traffic.
Type
Preprint