• Gibbs thermodynamics and surface properties at the nanoscale 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Gibbs’s classical thermodynamic framework approximates systems as infinitely large phases separated by infinitely thin surfaces. The range of validity of this classical framework comes naturally under scrutiny as we become ...
    • Negative Thermophoretic Force in the Strong Coupling Regime 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Negative thermophoresis (a particle moving up the temperature gradient) is a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon which has thus far eluded a simple thermostatistical description. The purpose of this Letter is to show that ...
    • Rayleigh-Schrödinger Perturbation Theory and Nonadditive Thermodynamics 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Physical chemists reconcile the empirical theory of classical thermodynamics with the quantum nature of matter and energy when they recover thermodynamics from a statistical mechanical treatment of the individual particles’ ...
    • Statistical Mechanics at Strong Coupling: A Bridge between Landsberg's Energy Levels and Hill's Nanothermodynamics 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We review and show the connection between three different theories proposed for the thermodynamic treatment of systems not obeying the additivity ansatz of classical thermodynamics. In the 1950s, Landsberg proposed that ...
    • Strong Coupling and Nonextensive Thermodynamics 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, Capaceti Jose Miguel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We propose a Hamiltonian-based approach to the nonextensive thermodynamics of small systems, where 'small' is a relative term comparing the size of the system to the size of the effective interaction region around it. We ...
    • Thermodynamics Far From the Thermodynamic Limit 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Journal article, 2017)
      Understanding how small systems exchange energy with a heat bath is important to describe how their unique properties can be affected by the environment. In this contribution, we apply Landsberg's theory of temperature-dependent ...