The Statistical Mechanics of Indistinguishable Energy States and the Glass Transition (opens in new tab)

arXiv:2603.04823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The statistical mechanics of particles that populate indistinguishable energy states is explored. In particular, the mathematical treatment of the microstates differs from conventional statistical mechanics where the energy levels or states are universally treated as distinguishable, and differentiated by unique quantum numbers, or addressed by distinct spatial locations. Results from combinatorial counting problems are adapted to derive exact ...