title: Microscopic expressions for the thermodynamic temperature
abstract: We show that arbitrary phase space vector fields can be used to generate phase functions whose ensemble averages give the thermodynamic temperature. We describe conditions for the validity of these functions in periodic boundary systems and the molecular dynamics (MD) ensemble, and test them with a short-ranged potential MD simulation.
authors.affiliation: Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Jepps
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ayton
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Evans