摘要翻译：
通过对一般经典多粒子系统势能景观鞍点的研究，给出了热力学相变发生的一个必要判据。值得注意的是，这个判据对微观性质，即势鞍点处的曲率，施加了条件，并把它们与相变的宏观现象联系起来。我们将我们的结果应用于两个精确可解的模型，证实了所导出的判据不仅是有效的，而且是尖锐和有用的：对于所研究的两个模型，除了跃迁能之外，所有势能值的判据都排除了相变的发生。这一结果为相变发生的既定拓扑条件增加了几何学成分，从而回答了构型空间中哪种拓扑变化能引起相变这一长期存在的问题。
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英文标题：
《Phase transitions induced by saddle points of vanishing curvature》
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作者：
Michael Kastner and Oliver Schnetz
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最新提交年份：
2008
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分类信息：

一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Statistical Mechanics        统计力学
分类描述：Phase transitions, thermodynamics, field theory, non-equilibrium phenomena, renormalization group and scaling, integrable models, turbulence
相变，热力学，场论，非平衡现象，重整化群和标度，可积模型，湍流
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一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Mathematical Physics        数学物理
分类描述：Articles in this category focus on areas of research that illustrate the application of mathematics to problems in physics, develop mathematical methods for such applications, or provide mathematically rigorous formulations of existing physical theories. Submissions to math-ph should be of interest to both physically oriented mathematicians and mathematically oriented physicists; submissions which are primarily of interest to theoretical physicists or to mathematicians should probably be directed to the respective physics/math categories
这一类别的文章集中在说明数学在物理问题中的应用的研究领域，为这类应用开发数学方法，或提供现有物理理论的数学严格公式。提交的数学-PH应该对物理方向的数学家和数学方向的物理学家都感兴趣；主要对理论物理学家或数学家感兴趣的投稿可能应该指向各自的物理/数学类别
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一级分类：Mathematics        数学
二级分类：Mathematical Physics        数学物理
分类描述：math.MP is an alias for math-ph. Articles in this category focus on areas of research that illustrate the application of mathematics to problems in physics, develop mathematical methods for such applications, or provide mathematically rigorous formulations of existing physical theories. Submissions to math-ph should be of interest to both physically oriented mathematicians and mathematically oriented physicists; submissions which are primarily of interest to theoretical physicists or to mathematicians should probably be directed to the respective physics/math categories
math.mp是math-ph的别名。这一类别的文章集中在说明数学在物理问题中的应用的研究领域，为这类应用开发数学方法，或提供现有物理理论的数学严格公式。提交的数学-PH应该对物理方向的数学家和数学方向的物理学家都感兴趣；主要对理论物理学家或数学家感兴趣的投稿可能应该指向各自的物理/数学类别
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英文摘要：
  Based on the study of saddle points of the potential energy landscapes of generic classical many-particle systems, we present a necessary criterion for the occurrence of a thermodynamic phase transition. Remarkably, this criterion imposes conditions on microscopic properties, namely curvatures at the saddle points of the potential, and links them to the macroscopic phenomenon of a phase transition. We apply our result to two exactly solvable models, corroborating that the criterion derived is not only valid, but also sharp and useful: For both models studied, the criterion excludes the occurrence of a phase transition for all values of the potential energy but the transition energy. This result adds a geometrical ingredient to an established topological condition for the occurrence of a phase transition, thereby providing an answer to the long standing question of which topology changes in configuration space can induce a phase transition.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/711.0852