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search  In statistical mechanics, the thermodynamic beta (or
occasionally perk) is the reciprocal of the thermodynamic
temperature of a system. It can be calculated in the
microcanonical ensemble from the formula
\beta\triangleq\frac{1}{k_B}\left(\frac{\partial S}{\partial
E}\right)_{V, N} = \frac1{k_B T} \,,  where kB is the Boltzmann
constant, S is the entropy, E is the energy, V is the volume, N
is the particle number, and T is the absolute temperature. It
has units reciprocal to that of energy, or in units where kB=1
also has units reciprocal to that of temperature. Thermodynamic
beta is essentially the connection between the information
theoretic/statistical interpretation of a physical system
through its entropy and the thermodynamics associated with its
energy. It can be interpreted as the entropic response to an
increase in energy. If a system is challenged with a small
amount of ene