• Title of article

    Dynamical scenario for nonextensive statistical mechanics

  • Author/Authors

    Constantino Tsallis، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    10
  • Abstract
    Statistical mechanics can only be ultimately justified in terms of microscopic dynamics (classical, quantum, relativistic, or any other). It is known that Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics is based on the hypothesis of exponential sensitivity to the initial conditions, mixing and ergodicity in Gibbs Γ-space. What are the corresponding hypothesis for nonextensive statistical mechanics? A scenario for answering such question is advanced, which naturally includes the a priori determination of the entropic index q, as well as its cause and manifestations, for say many-body Hamiltonian systems, in (i) sensitivity to the initial conditions in Gibbs Γ-space, (ii) relaxation of macroscopic quantities towards their values in anomalous stationary states that differ from the usual thermal equilibrium (e.g., in some classes of metastable or quasi-stationary states), and (iii) energy distribution in the Γ-space for the same anomalous stationary states.
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Record number

    869406