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Quantum implications of non-extensive statistics

Statistical Mechanics 2019-07-09 v1

Abstract

Exploring the analogy between quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics we formulate an integrated version of the Quantropy functional [1]. With this prescription we compute the propagator associated to Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics in the semiclassical approximation as K=F(T)exp(iScl/)K=F(T) \exp\left(i S_{cl}/\hbar\right). We determine also propagators associated to different non-additive statistics; those are the entropies depending only on the probability S±S_{\pm} [2] and Tsallis entropy SqS_q [3]. For S±S_{\pm} we obtain a power series solution for the probability vs. the energy, which can be analytically continued to the complex plane, and employed to obtain the propagators. Our work is motivated by [4] where a modified q-Schr\"odinger equation is obtained; that provides the wave function for the free particle as a q-exponential. The modified q-propagator obtained with our method, leads to the same q-wave function for that case. The procedure presented in this work allows to calculate q-wave functions in problems with interactions; determining non-linear quantum implications of non-additive statistics. In a similar manner the corresponding generalized wave functions associated to S±S_{\pm} can also be constructed. The corrections to the original propagator are explicitly determined in the case of a free particle and the harmonic oscillator for which the semi-classical approximation is exact.

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@article{arxiv.1907.03172,
  title  = {Quantum implications of non-extensive statistics},
  author = {Nana Cabo Bizet and César Damián Ascencio and Octavio Obregón and Roberto Santos-Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03172},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages, 9 figures, 1 appendix

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