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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Topology and Phase Transitions: A First Analytical Step towards the Definition of Sufficient Conditions.

Loris Di Cairano, Matteo Gori, Marco Pettini

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. The Glass Transition: A Topological Perspective.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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3 authors.

Loris Di CairanoInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine INM-9, and Institute for Advanced Simulation IAS-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany.
Matteo GoriPhysics and Materials Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Marco PettiniAix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, Université de Toulon, 13288 Marseille, France.

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Aix-Marseille University MOLINT
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Different arguments led to supposing that the deep origin of phase transitions has to be identified with suitable topological changes of potential related submanifolds of configuration space of a physical system. An important step forward for this approach was achieved with two theorems stating that, for a wide class of physical systems, phase transitions should necessarily stem from topological changes of energy level submanifolds of the phase space. However, the sufficiency conditions are still a wide open question. In this study, a first important step forward was performed in this direction; in fact, a differential equation was worked out which describes how entropy varies as a function of total energy, and this variation is driven by the total energy dependence of a topology-related quantity of the relevant submanifolds of the phase space. Hence, general conditions can be in principle defined for topology-driven loss of differentiability of the entropy.

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PMID34828112
PMCPMC8621195

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