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Specific heat and entropy of $N$-body nonextensive systems

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-18 v5

Abstract

We have studied finite NN-body DD-dimensional nonextensive ideal gases and harmonic oscillators, by using the maximum-entropy methods with the qq- and normal averages (qq: the entropic index). The validity range, specific heat and Tsallis entropy obtained by the two average methods are compared. Validity ranges of the qq- and normal averages are 0<q<qU0 < q < q_U and q>qLq > q_L, respectively, where qU=1+(ηDN)1q_U=1+(\eta DN)^{-1}, qL=1(ηDN+1)1q_L=1-(\eta DN+1)^{-1} and η=1/2\eta=1/2 (η=1\eta=1) for ideal gases (harmonic oscillators). The energy and specific heat in the qq- and normal averages coincide with those in the Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics, % independently of qq, although this coincidence does not hold for the fluctuation of energy. The Tsallis entropy for Nq11N |q-1| \gg 1 obtained by the qq-average is quite different from that derived by the normal average, despite a fairly good agreement of the two results for q11|q-1 | \ll 1. It has been pointed out that first-principles approaches previously proposed in the superstatistics yield additiveadditive NN-body entropy (S(N)=NS(1)S^{(N)}= N S^{(1)}) which is in contrast with the nonadditivenonadditive Tsallis entropy.

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@article{arxiv.1002.4052,
  title  = {Specific heat and entropy of $N$-body nonextensive systems},
  author = {Hideo Hasegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.4052},
  year   = {2015}
}

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27 pages, 8 figures: augmented the text