Rigid rotators and diatomic molecules via Tsallis statistics
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We obtain an analytic expression for the specific heat of a system of N rigid rotators exactly in the high temperature limit, and via a pertubative approach in the low temperature limit. We then evaluate the specific heat of a diatomic gas with both translational and rotational degrees of freedom, and conclude that there is a mixing between the translational and rotational degrees of freedom in nonextensive statistics.
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@article{arxiv.0709.1347,
title = {Rigid rotators and diatomic molecules via Tsallis statistics},
author = {R. Chakrabarti and R. Chandrashekar and S. S. Naina Mohammed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1347},
year = {2009}
}
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12 pages