Weakly Nonextensive Thermostatistics and the Ising Model with Long--range Interactions

Details Weakly Nonextensive Thermostatistics and the Ising Model with Long--range Interactions Weakly Nonextensive Thermostatistics and the Ising Model with Long--range Interactions

2000-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005379v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

LaTeX file, 20 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100510070108

We introduce a nonextensive entropic measure $S_{\chi}$ that grows like $N^{\chi}$, where $N$ is the size of the system under consideration. This kind of nonextensivity arises in a natural way in some $N$-body systems endowed with long-range interactions described by $r^{-\alpha}$ interparticle potentials. The power law (weakly nonextensive) behavior exhibited by $S_{\chi}$ is intermediate between (1) the linear (extensive) regime characterizing the standard Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy and the (2) the exponential law (strongly nonextensive) behavior associated with the Tsallis generalized $q$-entropies. The functional $S_{\chi} $ is parametrized by the real number $\chi \in[1,2]$ in such a way that the standard logarithmic entropy is recovered when $\chi=1$ >. We study the mathematical properties of the new entropy, showing that the basic requirements for a well behaved entropy functional are verified, i.e., $S_{\chi}$ possesses the usual properties of positivity, equiprobability, concavity and irreversibility and verifies Khinchin axioms except the one related to additivity since $S_{\chi}$ is nonextensive. For $1<\chi<2$, the entropy $S_{\chi}$ becomes superadditive in the thermodynamic limit. The present formalism is illustrated by a numerical study of the thermodynamic scaling laws of a ferromagnetic Ising model with long-range interactions.

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