Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-04-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
20 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjb/e2008-00451-y
The stability of $q$-Gaussian distributions as particular solutions of the linear diffusion equation and its generalized nonlinear form, $\pderiv{P(x,t)}{t} = D \pderiv{^2 [P(x,t)]^{2-q}}{x^2}$, the \emph{porous-medium equation}, is investigated through both numerical and analytical approaches. It is shown that an \emph{initial} $q$-Gaussian, characterized by an index $q_i$, approaches the \emph{final}, asymptotic solution, characterized by an index $q$, in such a way that the relaxation rule for the kurtosis evolves in time according to a $q$-exponential, with a \emph{relaxation} index $q_{\rm rel} \equiv q_{\rm rel}(q)$. In some cases, particularly when one attempts to transform an infinite-variance distribution ($q_i \ge 5/3$) into a finite-variance one ($q<5/3$), the relaxation towards the asymptotic solution may occur very slowly in time. This fact might shed some light on the slow relaxation, for some long-range-interacting many-body Hamiltonian systems, from long-standing quasi-stationary states to the ultimate thermal equilibrium state.
Nobre Fernando D.
Schwämmle Veit
Tsallis Constantino
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