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Heat capacity and fluctuation-dissipation theorem, meaning of energy fluctuations?

Physics Asked on August 22, 2020

I have read that from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem that the heat capacity is proportional to energy fluctuations (or populations fluctuations). In this context what is the meaning of ‘energy fluctuations’ (since a well defined state has constant energy) and why are they zero at $T=0$?

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For heat transport in solid, the instantaneous heat flux (resulted from thermal fluctuations) is the sum of atom-resolved energy-density fluctuations times the instantaneous position of the atom,

$textbf{J}(t)=sum_{I=1}^{N} dot{e}_I textbf{R}_{I}$

In the phonon quasi-particle picture, this means the phonon occupations $n_{s}(textbf{q})$ (or $E_s(textbf{q},t)$) of each modes $(s,textbf{q})$ are fluctuating, and

$textbf{J}(t)=sum_{stextbf{q}} E_s(textbf{q},t)textbf{v}_{s}(textbf{q})$

You know $n_{s}(textbf{q})$ and $E_s(textbf{q},t)$ are related with each other by Bose-Einstein distributions

Answered by Memories on August 22, 2020

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