On the extensivity of the entropy $S_q$ for $N \le 3$ specially correlated binary subsystems
Abstract
Many natural and artificial systems whose range of interaction is long enough are known to exhibit (quasi)stationary states that defy the standard, Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanical prescriptions. For handling such anomalous systems (or at least some classes of them), {\it nonextensive} statistical mechanics has been proposed based on the entropy , with (Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy). Special collective correlations can be mathematically constructed such that the strictly {\it additive} entropy is now for an adequate value of , whereas Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy is {\it nonadditive}. Since important classes of systems exist for which the strict additivity of Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy is replaced by asymptotic additivity (i.e., extensivity), a variety of classes are expected to exist for which the strict additivity of is similarly replaced by asymptotic additivity (i.e., extensivity). All probabilistically well defined systems whose adequate entropy is are called {\it extensive} (or {\it normal}). They correspond to a number of {\it effectively} occupied states which grows {\it exponentially} with the number of elements (or subsystems). Those whose adequate entropy is are currently called {\it nonextensive} (or {\it anomalous}). They correspond to growing like a {\it power} of . To illustrate this scenario, recently addressed, we provide in this paper details about systems composed by two-state subsystems.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0411073,
title = {On the extensivity of the entropy $S_q$ for $N \le 3$ specially correlated binary subsystems},
author = {Yuzuru Sato and Constantino Tsallis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0411073},
year = {2007}
}
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10 pages including 7 figures. Invited paper to appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos: Proceedings of the Summer School and Conference on Complexity at Patras and Olympia (July 2004), Ed. T. Bountis