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Adopting a bottom-up perspective, we propose a novel two-parametric nonadditive entropy, $S_{\kappa\ell}$, associated with a Kappa-type power-law velocity distribution, $F_{\kappa\ell}(v)$, recently derived in the literature. By formulating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-04 J. A. S. Lima , M. H. Benetti

The paper develops a theoretical relationship between the polytropic index and the temperature anisotropy that may characterize space plasmas. The derivation is based on the correlation among the kinetic energies of particles with…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 George Livadiotis , George Nicolaou

We study the effects of the velocity distribution functions of the plasma particles on the equilibrium charge of dust grains, acquired through inelastic collisions of the particles with the grains. This paper is the second in a series of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell

Dissipative processes cause collisionless plasmas in many systems to develop nonthermal particle distributions with broad power-law tails. The prevalence of power-law energy distributions in space/astrophysical observations and kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Vladimir Zhdankin

The Earth's magnetosphere represents a natural plasma laboratory that allows us to study the behavior of particle distribution functions in the absence of Coulomb collisions, typically described by the Kappa distributions. We have…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Adetayo V. Eyelade , Marina Stepanova , Cristobal M. Espinoza , Pablo S. Moya

In this paper, we prove that the kappa distribution is the stationary solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system in an inhomogeneous plasma under the polytropic equation of state and an assumption restricting the local velocity distribution to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Ran Guo

The correct modelling of velocity distribution functions for particles in steady-state plasmas is a central element in the study of nuclear fusion and also in the description of space plasmas. In this work, a statistical mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Sergio Davis , Gonzalo Avaria , Biswajit Bora , Jalaj Jain , José Moreno , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto

Thermal Doppler broadening of spectral profiles for particle populations in the absence or presence of potential fields are described by kappa distributions. The kappa distribution provides a replacement for the Maxwell-Boltzmann…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Arak M. Mathai , Hans J. Haubold

It is shown that power law phase space distributions describe marginally stable Gibbsian equilibria far from thermal equilibrium which are expected to occur in collisionless plasmas containing fully developed quasi-stationary turbulence.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-04-22 R. A. Treumann , C. H. Jaroschek

A system of inelastic hard disks in a thin pipe capped by hot walls is studied with the aim of investigating velocity correlations between particles. Two effects lead to such correlations: inelastic collisions help to build localized…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Tong Zhou

We study the diffusion of charged particles in the weakly ionized plasma with the power-law kappa-distributions and without magnetic field. The electrons and ions have different kappa-parameters. We obtain the expressions of both diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Lan Wang , Jiulin Du

Relating thermodynamic and kinetic properties is a conceptual challenge with many practical benefits. Here, based on first principles, we derive a rigorous inequality relating the entropy and the dynamic propagator of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-11 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

Plasma physics give an example of physical system of particles with the long range interaction. At small velocity of particles we can consider the plasma approximately as a system of particles with the Coulomb interaction. The Coulomb…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 P. A. Andreev

This note derives the various forms of entropy of systems subject to Olbert distributions (generalized Lorentzian probability distributions known as $\kappa$-distributions) which are frequently observed particularly in high temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-24 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

The thermodynamic limit of the internal energy and the entropy of the system of quantum interacting particles in random medium is shown to exist under the crucial requirements of stability and temperedness of interactions. The energy turns…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Nikolaj A. Veniaminov

The general framework of entropic dynamics is used to formulate a relational quantum dynamics. The main new idea is to use tools of information geometry to develop an entropic measure of the mismatch between successive configurations of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 Selman Ipek , Ariel Caticha

We study numerically the thermal conductivity coefficient $\kappa$ as a function of system length $L$ for several different quasi one dimensional models: classical gases of hard spheres with both longitudinal and transverse degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Deutsch , Onuttom Narayan

Entropic-force cosmology provides, in contrast with dark energy descriptions, a concrete physical understanding of the accelerated expansion of the universe. The acceleration appears to be a consequence of the entropy associated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-15 D. J. Zamora , C. Tsallis

Constitutive relations are fundamental and essential to characterize physical systems. By utilizing the $\kappa$-deformed functions, some constitutive relations are generalized. We here show some applications of the Kaniadakis distributions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-14 Tatsuaki Wada , Antonio M. Scarfone

A recently proposed technique correlating electric fields and particle velocity distributions is applied to single-point time series extracted from linearly unstable, electrostatic numerical simulations. The form of the correlation, which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Kristopher G Klein