Tsallis statistics: averages and a physical interpretation of the Lagrange multiplier

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00634-4MaRDI QIDQ2644097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Kalyana Rama

Publication date 7 September 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006279

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

Abstract: Tsallis has proposed a generalisation of the standard entropy, which has since been applied to a variety of physical systems. In the canonical ensemble approach that is mostly used, average energy is given by an unnromalised, or normalised, $q$-expectation value. A Lagrange multiplier $$ enforces the energy constraint whose physical interpretation, however, is lacking. Here, we use a microcanonical ensemble approach and find that consistency requires that only normalised $q$-expectation values are to be used. We then present a physical interpretation of $$, relating it to a physical temperature. We derive this interpretation by a different method also.

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