https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1211.0545/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004800urn:hackerpapers:mention:1211.0545:5004800Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:33:06 GMT<p>I don&#x27;t really like the misleading headline, although it seems as though the actual paper does it as well (http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0545). Temperature is conventionally defined as the average kinetic energy of a collection of particles. However, in statistical mechanics, you derive thermodynamic relations from the principles of quantum mechanics. It turns out there is a term β which for most purposes seems to match up with 1/kT, where k is the Boltzmann constant and T is classical temperature. According to this article, there are some occasions where &quot;conventional&quot; T and quantum mechanical T…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1211.0545/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.quant-gas