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High Temperature and Low Duality for the Ising Model on an Infinite Regular Tree
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Today I felt like sharing a computation that I thought was interesting. I'm sure I'm not the first to explore the Ising-Ising duality in this context,…

What Is Heat? The Real Thermodynamics Definition Explained
Heat is not something a body possesses. Heat is a transfer mechanism: the non-mechanical exchange of energy between a system and its surroundings that…

Frequently Made Errors in Heat: Elementary Level
1. Heat, Work, Internal Energy, and Kinetic Energy
"If heat is the motion of molecules, why isn't it Kinetic Energy?"In everyday use, we may think…

Negative Absolute Temperatures: Explanation & Examples
It's a famous result in thermodynamics that you cannot reach absolute zero no matter how hard you try. Given the definition of absolute zero, it is also…
