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标题：Thermal momentum distribution from shifted boundary conditions
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作者：L. Giusti
期刊名称：PoS - Proceedings of Science
印刷版ISSN：1824-8039
出版年度：2011
卷号：2011
期号：Lattice2011
出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：At finite temperature the distribution of the total momentum is an observable characterizing the thermal state of a field theory, and its cumulants are related to thermodynamic potentials. In a relativistic system at zero chemical potential, for instance, the thermal variance of the total momentum is a direct measure of the entropy. We relate the generating function of the cumulants to the ratio of a path integral with properly shifted boundary conditions in the compact direction over the ordinary partition function. In this form it is well suited for Monte-Carlo evaluation, and the cumulants can be extracted straightforwardly. We test the method in the SU(3) Yang–Mills theory, and obtain the entropy density at three different temperatures.