Comment on "Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures"

In this comment we argue that negative absolute temperatures are a well-established concept for systems with bounded spectra. They are not only consistent with thermodynamics, but are even unavoidable for a consistent description of the thermal equilibrium of inverted populations.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  arXiv: Quantum Gases

• Publication date

  2014-07-15

• Fields of study

  Physics

• Identifiers
  arXiv 1407.4127
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Gibbs, Boltzmann, and negative temperatures

  2014cited by this paper
• Communication: system-size scaling of Boltzmann and alternate Gibbs entropies.

  2014cited by this paper
• Reply to Frenkel and Warren [arXiv:1403.4299v1]

  2014cited by this paper
• Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures

  2013influential reference
• Negative Absolute Temperature for Motional Degrees of Freedom

  2012cited by this paper
• Equilibration rates and negative absolute temperatures for ultracold atoms in optical lattices.

  2010cited by this paper
• Statistical mechanical proof of the second law of thermodynamics based on volume entropy

  2007cited by this paper
• Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics

  1902cited by this paper

• Resolving the Debate between Boltzmann and Gibbs Entropy: Relative Energy Window Eliminates Thermodynamic Inconsistencies and Allows Negative Absolute Temperatures.

  2024cites this paper
• Optical Superlattice for Engineering Hubbard Couplings in Quantum Simulation.

  2024cites this paper
• Background and Motivation

  2020cites this paper
• Fluctuation relations and strong inequalities for thermally isolated systems

  2019cites this paper
• The question of negative temperatures in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

  2019cites this paper
• Thermodynamics of finite systems: a key issues review

  2018cites this paper
• A study of the Boltzmann and Gibbs entropies in the context of a stochastic toy model

  2018cites this paper
• Constraining the physics of the early Universe

  2018cites this paper
• Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Entropy

  2017cites this paper
• Tropical limit and a micro-macro correspondence in statistical physics

  2017cites this paper
• Resolving the debate about proposed expressions for the classical entropy

  2017cites this paper
• Temperature in and out of equilibrium: A review of concepts, tools and attempts

  2017cites this paper
• Tropical limit and the micro-macro correspondence

  2017cites this paper
• On the dispute between Boltzmann and Gibbs entropy

  2016cites this paper
• Phase transitions at high energy vindicate negative microcanonical temperature.

  2015cites this paper
• Comparison of canonical and microcanonical definitions of entropy

  2015cites this paper
• The thermodynamic entropy of a macroscopic quantum system is a continuous function of energy

  2015cites this paper
• Critique of the Gibbs volume entropy and its implication

  2015cites this paper
• Negative absolute temperature and the dynamics of quantum phase transitions

  2014cites this paper
• Negative temperatures and the definition of entropy

  2014cites this paper