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Thermodynamics arising from Tsallis' thermostatistics

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

We show, in two different ways, that the Tsallis' partition function and its derivatives are related to thermodynamic quantities such as entropy, internal energy, etc., in the same way as in Boltzmann-Gibbs' formalism, with the Lagrange multiplier βBG\beta^{BG} replaced by its value 1kBT\frac{1}{k_BT}. They are obtained within the finite heat bath canonical ensemble approach. Furthermore, we discuss the meaning of the Lagrange multiplier of the generalized framework, βT\beta^T, and show that the entropy found here is just the R\`enyi entropy plus a definite constant.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0208357,
  title  = {Thermodynamics arising from Tsallis' thermostatistics},
  author = {F. Q. Potiguar and U. M. S. Costa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0208357},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

17 pages, results improved, dicussion on Lagrange multipliers added, references added