arXiv · 1009.0128
Thermal effects in gravitational Hartree systems
Abstract
We consider the non-relativistic Hartree model in the gravitational case, i.e. with attractive Coulomb-Newton interaction. For a given mass, we construct stationary states with non-zero temperature 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(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 positive critical temperature above which mixed states appear.
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Gonca L. Aki, Jean Dolbeault, Christof Sparber. 2010-09-01. Thermal effects in gravitational Hartree systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-011-0096-1
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