Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-11-28
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Contribution to the proceedings of the Kyoto RIMS workshop: "Mathematical Aspects of Generalized Entropies and their Applicati
Scientific paper
The Boltzmann-Gibbs probability distribution, seen as a statistical model, belongs to the exponential family. Recently, the latter concept has been generalized. The q-exponential family has been shown to be relevant for the statistical description of small isolated systems. Two main applications are reviewed: 1. The distribution of the momentum of a single particle is a q-Gaussian, the distribution of its velocity is a deformed Maxwellian; 2. The configurational density distribution belongs to the q-exponential family. The definition of the temperature of small isolated systems is discussed. It depends on defining the thermodynamic entropy of a microcanonical ensemble in a suitable manner. The simple example of non-interacting harmonic oscillators shows that Renyi's entropy functional leads to acceptable results.
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