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On the entropy of plasmas described with regularized $\kappa$-distributions

Plasma Physics 2018-12-05 v1

Abstract

In classical thermodynamics the entropy is an extensive quantity, i.e.\ the sum of the entropies of two subsystems in equilibrium with each other is equal to the entropy of the full system consisting of the two subsystems. The extensitivity of entropy has been questioned in the context of a theoretical foundation for the so-called κ\kappa-distributions, which describe plasma constituents with power-law velocity distributions. We demonstrate here, by employing the recently introduced {\it regularized κ\kappa-distributions}, that entropy can be defined as an extensive quantity even for such power-law-like distributions that truncate exponentially.

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@article{arxiv.1810.12645,
  title  = {On the entropy of plasmas described with regularized $\kappa$-distributions},
  author = {H. Fichtner and K. Scherer and M. Lazar and H. J. Fahr and Z. Vörös},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12645},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Preprint accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E