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Thermodynamic origin of universal fluctuations and two-power laws

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss universality of response functions in systems with excited degrees of freedom. We propose a unification of two existing phenomenologies, two-power law decay and deviation from power law due to non-extensivity. A universal curve is derived by maximizing entropy with a non-linear constraint. The same formalism can explain the universal fluctuation curves which have been discovered recently by Bramwell, Holdsworth, and Pinton.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0108354,
  title  = {Thermodynamic origin of universal fluctuations and two-power laws},
  author = {Jan Naudts and Marek Czachor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0108354},
  year   = {2007}
}

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