Non-extensivity of the configurational density distribution in the classical microcanonical ensemble

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2009-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0576v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages, no figures

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We show that the configurational probability distribution of a classical gas always belongs to the q-exponential family. Hence, the configurational subsystem is non-extensive in the sense of Tsallis. One of the consequences of this observation is that the thermodynamics of the configurational subsystem is uniquely determined up to a scaling function. As an example we consider a system of non-interacting harmonic oscillators. In this example, the scaling function can be determined from the requirement that in the limit of large systems the microcanonical temperature of the configurational subsystem should coincide with that of the canonical ensemble. The result suggests that Renyi's entropy function is the relevant one rather than that of Tsallis.

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