Thermodynamics of a charged relativistic ideal Boltzmann gas

TL;DR

This paper investigates the thermodynamics of a charged relativistic classical gas with pair production, analyzing its behavior across nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic regimes, and comparing it with quantum gases.

Contribution

It introduces a classical toy model for a charged relativistic gas with pair production and analyzes its thermodynamics in different regimes, highlighting Planckian behavior at high energies.

Findings

Ultrarelativistic regime exhibits Planckian distribution despite classical assumptions.

Thermodynamics differs between nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic regimes.

Comparison with quantum gases reveals similarities in high-energy behavior.

Abstract

This paper presents a toy model of a charged relativistic classical gas in flat spacetime of an arbitrary number of dimensions equipped with some ``pair production'' mechanism. Working with the microcanonical ensemble, the charge is taken to be conserved in contrast with the total number of ``particles'' plus ``antiparticles'' which varies with temperature $T$. Thermodynamics of the classical gas is detailed studied in the nonrelativistic ($Mc^{2}\gg kT$) as well as in the ultrarelativistic ($Mc^{2}\ll kT$) regimes. It is shown that, although we are dealing with classical distributions, at the ultrarelativistic regime the behavior of the gas is Planckian. We also compare the thermodynamics of the toy model with that of quantum gases.