Is the entropy Sq extensive or nonextensive?
Abstract
The cornerstones of Boltzmann-Gibbs and nonextensive statistical mechanics respectively are the entropies and . Through them we revisit the concept of additivity, and illustrate the (not always clearly perceived) fact that (thermodynamical) extensivity has a well defined sense {\it only} if we specify the composition law that is being assumed for the subsystems (say and ). If the composition law is {\it not} explicitly indicated, it is {\it tacitly} assumed that and are {\it statistically independent}. In this case, it immediately follows that , hence extensive, whereas , hence nonextensive for . In the present paper we illustrate the remarkable changes that occur when and are {\it specially correlated}. Indeed, we show that, in such case, for the appropriate value of (hence extensive), whereas (hence nonextensive).
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409631,
title = {Is the entropy Sq extensive or nonextensive?},
author = {Constantino Tsallis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409631},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
To appear in the Proceedings of the 31st Workshop of the International School of Solid State Physics ``Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity", held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice (Sicily) in 20-26 July 2004, eds. C. Beck, A. Rapisarda and C. Tsallis (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005). 10 pages including 1 figure