Photon Gas Thermodynamics: Self-Inconsistency
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Abstract
In this chapter, it is shown that the well known adiabatic equations of state of photon gas cannot be valid simultaneously. Moreover, it is argued that Planck distribution just as the Wien and Rayleigh-Jeans laws cannot be invariant for an adiabatic change of state occuring in an ensemble of photons -a photon gas- and novel type of ultraviolet catastrophe occurs. These arguments are also valid for arbitrary deformation of electromagnetic radiation fields and quantum plasmas.
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Milan Meszaros. "Photon Gas Thermodynamics: Self-Inconsistency" The Enigmatic Photon (First ed). Ed. Jean-Pierre Vigier, M. W. Evans, Sisir Roy and Geoffrey Hunter. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. 147-161.
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