Mixing and equilibration: protagonists in the scene of nonextensive statistical mechanics

Constantino Tsallis, Ernesto P Borges and Fulvio Baldovin

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 305, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: After a brief review of the present status of nonextensive statistical mechanics, we present a conjectural scenario where mixing (characterized by the entropic index qmix⩽1) and equilibration (characterized by the entropic index qeq⩾1) play central and inter-related roles, and appear to determine a priori the values of the relevant indices of the formalism. Boltzmann–Gibbs statistical mechanics is recovered as the qmix=qeq=1 particular case.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00633-1

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