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While the canonical ensemble has been tremendously successful in capturing thermal statistics of macroscopic systems, deviations from canonical behavior exhibited by small systems are not well understood. Here, using a small two dimensional Ising magnet embedded inside a larger Ising magnet heat bath, we characterize the failures of the canonical ensemble when describing small systems. We find significant deviations from the canonical behavior for small systems near and below the critical point of the two dimensional Ising model. Notably, the agreement with the canonical ensemble is driven not by the system size but by the statistical decoupling between the system and its surrounding. A superstatistical framework wherein we allow the temperature of the small magnet to vary is able to capture its thermal statistics with significantly higher accuracy than the Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution. We discuss future directions.
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