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

USUAL
PHENOMENOLOGICAL
EQUILIBRIUM
MINIMUM
THERMODYNAMIC
ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURES
NEGATIVE ABSOLUTE
SYSTEMS AT NEGATIVE
POTENTIALS FOR SYSTEMS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Conditions for Equilibrium at Negative Absolute Temperatures
Physical Review B, 1959
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics at Negative Absolute Temperatures
Physical Review B, 1956