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We investigate possible effects of quantum power-law statistical mechanics on the relativistic nuclear equation of state in the context of the Walecka quantum hadrodynamics theory. By considering the Kaniadakis non-Gaussian statistics,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-17 F. I. M. Pereira , R. Silva , J. S. Alcaniz

The standard (non-relativistic) $\kappa$-distribution is widely used to fit data and to describe macroscopic thermodynamical behavior, e.g.\ the pressure (temperature) as the second moment of the distribution function. By contrast to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Klaus Scherer , Horst Fichtner , Hans-Jörg Fahr , Marian Lazar

In this paper we give an interpretation of Tsallis' nonextensive statistical mechanics based upon the information-theoretic point of view of Luzzi et al. [cond-mat/0306217; cond-mat/0306247; cond-mat/0307325], suggesting Tsallis' entropy to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Sattin

Large-scale astrophysical systems are non-extensive due to their long-range force of gravity. Here we show an approach toward the statistical mechanics of such self-gravitating systems (SGS). This is a generalization of the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akika Nakamichi , Izumi Joichi , Osamu Iguchi , Masahiro Morikawa

In this paper we have derived the equipartition law of energy using Tsallis formalism and the Kaniadakis power law statistics in order to obtain a modified gravitational constant. We have applied this result in the gravothermal collapse…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Everton M. C. Abreu , Jorge Ananias Neto , Edesio M. Barboza , Rafael da C. Nunes

We investigate a kinetic model of a system in contact with several thermal reservoirs at different temperatures $T_\alpha$. Our system is a spatially uniform dilute gas whose internal dynamics is described by the nonlinear Boltzmann…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Eric A. Carlen , Joel L. Lebowitz , Clement Mouhot

In this Letter we have derived the Jeans length in the context of the Kaniadakis statistics. We have compared this result with the Jeans length obtained in the non-extensive Tsallis statistics and discussed the main differences between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Everton M. C. Abreu , Jorge Ananias Neto , Edesio M. Barboza , Rafael C. Nunes

In this letter we study the observed distributions of rotational velocity in a sample of more than 16,000 nearby F and G dwarf stars, magnitude complete and presenting high precision $Vsin i$ measurements. We show that the velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. C. Carvalho , J. D. Jr. do Nascimento , R. Silva , J. R. De Medeiros

The Tsallis entropy, which possesses non-extensive property, is derived from the first principle employing the non-extensive Hamiltonian or the $q$-deformed Hamiltonian with the canonical ensemble assumption in statistical mechanics. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-11 Paradon Krisut , Sikarin Yoo-Kong

The non-extensive statistical mechanics has been applied to describe a variety of complex systems with inherent correlations and feedback loops. Here we present a dynamical model based on previously proposed static model exhibiting in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Kononovicius , J. Ruseckas

The Tsallis $q$-Gaussian distribution is a powerful generalization of the standard Gaussian distribution and is commonly used in various fields, including non-extensive statistical mechanics, financial markets and image processing. It…

Computation · Statistics 2023-05-19 Viktor Witkovský

Gibbs-Boltzmann entropy leads to systems that have a strong dependence on initial conditions. In reality, most materials behave quite independently of initial conditions. Nonextensive entropy or Tsallis entropy leads to nonextensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-01 Saman Amiri , Mahdi Mirzaee , Mohammad Mazhari

Alternative definitions are given of basic concepts of generalized thermostatistics. In particular, generalizations of Shannon's entropy, of the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution, and of relative entropy are considered. Particular choices made…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Naudts

Consistent statistical physical description is given for systems where the elementary excitations are composite objects. Explicit calculational scheme is constructed for the energy density and the total number of thermodynamical degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-01 A. Jakovac

Kaniadakis ($\kappa$-deformed) statistics is being widely used for describing relativistic systems with non-extensive behavior and/or interactions. It is built upon a one-parameter generalization of the classical Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano

It is pointed out that the Tsallis entropy functional represented in terms of the escort distribution is not concave of the entropic index $q$ is less than unity. It is emphasized that the escort distribution is a secondary object…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sumiyoshi Abe

More and more works deal with statistical systems far from equilibrium, dominated by unidirectional stochastic processes augmented by rare resets. We analyze the construction of the entropic distance measure appropriate for such dynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 Tamás S. Biró , András Telcs , Zoltán Néda

We show that the non-additivity relation of the Tsallis entropies in nonextensive statistical mechanics has a simple physical interpretation for systems with fluctuating temperature or fluctuating energy dissipation rate. We also show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Beck

In order to improve the teaching of the course of statistical physics in universities, in this article we introduce nonextensive statistics, a new statistical theory about complex systems. We study the two modification coefficients a and b…

General Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Lining Zheng , Jiulin Du

We use physical constrains imposed from the H-Theorem and from the negative nature of the heat capacity of self-gravitating thermodynamically isolated systems to investigate some possible limits on the stellar polytrope index $n$ within the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Silva , J. S. Alcaniz