Nonexponential decays and nonextensivity

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(01)00645-4MaRDI QIDQ5948463zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Grzegorz Wilk, Zbigniew Włodarczyk

Publication date 7 November 2001

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0103114

zbMATH Keywords

L\'vy distributionsNonextensive statisticsThermal modelsunstable systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

Abstract: We demonstrate that non-exponential decays of unstable systems can be understood as yet another example of nonextensivity encountered in many physical systems and as such can be characterized by the nonextensivity parameter q.

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