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Generalizing the Planck distribution

Statistical Mechanics 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

Along the lines of nonextensive statistical mechanics, based on the entropy Sq=k(1ipiq)/(q1)(S1=kipilnpi)S_q = k(1- \sum_i p_i^q)/(q-1) (S_1=-k \sum_i p_i \ln p_i), and Beck-Cohen superstatistics, we heuristically generalize Planck's statistical law for the black-body radiation. The procedure is based on the discussion of the differential equation dy/dx=a1y(aqa1)yqdy/dx=-a_{1}y-(a_{q}-a_{1}) y^{q} (with y(0)=1y(0)=1), whose q=2q=2 particular case leads to the celebrated law, as originally shown by Planck himself in his October 1900 paper. Although the present generalization is mathematically simple and elegant, we have unfortunately no physical application of it at the present moment. It opens nevertheless the door to a type of approach that might be of some interest in more complex, possibly out-of-equilibrium, phenomena.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0501389,
  title  = {Generalizing the Planck distribution},
  author = {Andre M. C. Souza and Constantino Tsallis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0501389},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, including 2 figures. To appear in {\it Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity}, Proc. 31st Workshop of the International School of Solid State Physics (20-26 July 2004, Erice-Italy), eds. C. Beck, A. Rapisarda and C. Tsallis (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005)