q-thermostatistics and the analytical treatment of the ideal Fermi gas

S Martı́nez, F Pennini, A Plastino and M Portesi

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 332, issue C, 230-248

Abstract: We discuss relevant aspects of the exact q-thermostatistical treatment for an ideal Fermi system. The grand-canonical exact generalized partition function is given for arbitrary values of the nonextensivity index q, and the ensuing statistics is derived. Special attention is paid to the mean occupation numbers of single-particle levels. Limiting instances of interest are discussed in some detail, namely, the thermodynamic limit, considering in particular both the high- and low-temperature regimes, and the approximate results pertaining to the case q∼1 (the conventional Fermi–Dirac statistics corresponds to q=1). We compare our findings with previous Tsallis’ literature.

Keywords: Tsallis’ generalized statistics; Optimized Lagrange multipliers approach; Thermodynamics; Ideal Fermi gas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.10.026

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