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Canonical ensemble in non-extensive statistical mechanics when q>1

Statistical Mechanics 2016-02-22 v1

Abstract

The non-extensive statistical mechanics has been used to describe a variety of complex systems. The maximization of entropy, often used to introduce the non-extensive statistical mechanics, is a formal procedure and does not easily leads to physical insight. In this article we investigate the canonical ensemble in the non-extensive statistical mechanics by considering a small system interacting with a large reservoir via short-range forces and assuming equal probabilities for all available microstates. We concentrate on the situation when the reservoir is characterized by generalized entropy with non-extensivity parameter q>1. We also investigate the problem of divergence in the non-extensive statistical mechanics occurring when q>1 and show that there is a limit on the growth of the number of microstates of the system that is given by the same expression for all values of q.

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@article{arxiv.1602.06122,
  title  = {Canonical ensemble in non-extensive statistical mechanics when q>1},
  author = {Julius Ruseckas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06122},
  year   = {2016}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1503.03778

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