Rigid rotators and diatomic molecules via Tsallis statistics

R. Chakrabarti, R. Chandrashekar and S.S. Naina Mohammed

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, issue 18, 4589-4598

Abstract: We obtain an analytic expression for the specific heat of a system of N rigid rotators exactly in the high temperature limit, and via a perturbative approach in the low temperature limit. We then evaluate the specific heat of a diatomic gas with both translational and rotational degrees of freedom, and conclude that there is a mixing between the translational and rotational degrees of freedom in nonextensive statistics.

Keywords: Nonextensivity; Rigid rotators; Perturbative method; Diatomic molecule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.03.021

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