Published May 1, 2024 | Version v1
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Tolman-Ehrenfest effect for an ideal gas in a background of time-independent electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6315, USA

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The statistical mechanics of an ideal gas of point particles moving in a time independent background metric with g0j0 is investigated. An explicit calculation shows that when there is no background electrostatic or magnetostatic field the thermodynamic pressure, energy density, and thermally averaged energy-momentum tensor depend on temperature and chemical potential only through the ratios T0/g00 and μ0/g00. A background magnetostatic field does not change this, however with a background electrostatic field the previous results are multiplied by a factor exp(eA0/T0), which is an exception to the strict Tolman-Ehrenfest rule because the system is open.

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Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
11 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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Contact Email: hweldon@WVU.edu; Record automatically processed