Chavanis, Pierre-Henri - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 361 (2006) 1, pp. 55-80
We discuss the equilibrium statistical mechanics of systems with long-range interactions. We contrast the microcanonical description of an isolated Hamiltonian system from the canonical description of a stochastically forced Brownian system. We show that the mean-field approximation is exact in...