Kruse, M.K.G.; Miller, H.G.; Plastino, A.; Plastino, A.R. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 13, pp. 2533-2540
We report on the fact that microscopically enforcing fulfillment of thermodynamics’ third law on a system of fermions automatically yields the values of the external parameter (here coupling strengths in the pertinent Hamiltonian) at which quantum phase transitions take place. Our...