Temperature is not an observable in superstatistics

Sergio Davis and Gonzalo Gutiérrez

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 505, issue C, 864-870

Abstract: Superstatistics (Beck and Cohen, 2003) is a formalism that attempts to explain the presence of distributions other than the Boltzmann–Gibbs distributions in Nature, typically power-law behavior, for systems out of equilibrium such as fluids under turbulence, plasmas and gravitational systems. Superstatistics postulates that those systems are found in a superposition of canonical ensembles at different temperatures, and sometimes the physical interpretation is one of local thermal equilibrium in the sense of an inhomogeneous temperature distribution in different regions of space or instants of time.

Keywords: superstatistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.04.007

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