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The quantum version of Olbert's kappa distribution applicable to fermions is obtained. Its construction is straightforward but requires recognition of the differences in the nature of states separated by Fermi momenta. Its complement, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-01 R. A. Treumann , Wolfgang Baumjohann

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 statistical mechanical partition function can be used to construct different forms of phase space distributions not restricted to the Gibbs-Boltzmann factor. With a generalised Lorentzian both the Kappa-Bose and Kappa-Fermi partition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-03 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

Expressions for the entropy and equations for the quantum distribution functions in systems of non-interacting fermions and bosons with an arbitrary, including small, number of particles are obtained in the paper

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Yu. M. Poluektov , A. A. Soroka

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

Kappa-distributed velocities in plasmas are common in a wide variety of settings, from low-density to high-density plasmas. To date, they have been found mainly in space plasmas, but are recently being considered also in the modelling of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sergio Davis , Gonzalo Avaria , Biswajit Bora , Jalaj Jain , José Moreno , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto

Particle velocity distribution functions (VDF) in space plasmas often show non Maxwellian suprathermal tails decreasing as a power law of the velocity. Such distributions are well fitted by the so-called Kappa distribution. The presence of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Pierrard , M. Lazar

From the perspective of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, modeling the velocity distribution of particles in non-equilibrium, steady-state plasmas presents a significant challenge. Under this context, a family of kappa distributions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Abiam Tamburrini , Sergio Davis , Pablo S. Moya

Starting with the fractal inspired distribution functions for Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi systems, as reported by F. B\"{u}y\"{u}kkili\c{c} and D. Demirhan, we obtain the corresponding probability distributions and study…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcelo R. Ubriaco

The generalized quantal distribution functions are investigated concerning systems of non-interacting bosons and fermions. The formulae for the number of particles and energy are presented and applications to the Chandrasekhar limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Diego F. Torres , Ugur Tirnakli

The new numerical version of the Wigner approach to quantum mechanics for treatment thermodynamic properties of strongly coupled systems of particles has been developed for extreme conditions, when analytical approximations obtained in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. S. Larkin , V. S. Filinov , V. E. Fortov

Most astrophysical plasmas are observed to have velocity distribution functions exhibiting non-Maxwellian suprathermal tails. The high energy particle populations are accurately represented by the family of kappa-distributions where the use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manfred P. Leubner

For general quantum systems the power expansion of the Gibbs potential and consequently the power expansion of the self energy is derived in terms of the interaction strength. Employing a generalization of the projector technique a compact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-18 T. Plefka

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

We develop a general method for computing logarithmic and log-gamma expectations of distributions. As a result, we derive series expansions and integral representations of the entropy for several fundamental distributions, including the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Mahdi Cheraghchi

Many complex systems are characterized by non-Boltzmann distribution functions of their statistical variables. If one wants to -- justified or not -- hold on to the maximum entropy principle for complex statistical systems (non-Boltzmann)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefan Thurner , Rudolf Hanel

Starting from the $\kappa$-distribution function, obtained by applying the maximal entropy principle to the $\kappa$-entropy [G. Kaniadakis, Phys. Rev. E 66 (2002), 056125], we derive the expression of the canonical $\kappa$-partition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Scarfone , T. Wada

The kappa distribution of velocities appears routinely in the study of collisionless plasmas present in Earth's magnetosphere, the solar wind among other contexts where particles are unable to reach thermal equilibrium. Originally justified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Sergio Davis , Biswajit Bora , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto

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

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
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