• Media type: Text; Report; E-Book
  • Title: Thermal effects in gravitational Hartree systems
  • Contributor: Aki, Gonca [Author]; Dolbeault, Jean [Author]; Sparber, Christof [Author]
  • Published: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2010
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1544
  • Keywords: 05.70.Jk ; 82B10 ; 47G20 ; 64.10.+h ; 49J40 ; 85A15 ; 04.40.-b ; 02.30.Jr ; 35Q40 ; 02.30.Xx ; Gravitation -- Hartree energy -- entropy -- ground states -- free energy -- Casimir functional -- pure states -- mixed states ; article
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  • Description: We consider the non-relativistic Hartree model in the gravitational case, i.e.~with attractive Coulomb-Newton interaction. For a given mass $M>0$, we construct stationary states with non-zero temperature $T$ by minimizing the corresponding free energy functional. It is proved that minimizers exist if and only if the temperature of the system is below a certain threshold $T^*>0$ (possibly infinite), which itself depends on the specific choice of the entropy functional. We also investigate whether the corresponding minimizers are mixed or pure quantum states and characterize a critical temperature $T_c \in (0, T^*)$ above which mixed states appear.
  • Access State: Open Access