On the derivation of power-law distributions within classical statistical mechanics far from the thermodynamic limit

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 365, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 162-166

  Hanel, Rudolf ^a,b   Thurner, Stefan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Boltzmann distribution; Extremal principle; Non extensive thermodynamics; Power laws; Tsallis distribution

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; EXTREMAL PRINCIPLES; NON-EXTENSIVE THERMODYNAMICS; POWER-LAWS; TSALLIS DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 33645958864     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Tsallis C. J. Stat. Phys. 52 (1988) 479
2. Gell-Mann M., and Tsallis C. Nonextensive Entropy-Interdisciplinary Applications (2004), Oxford University Press, New York
3. A. Carati, cond-mat/0407768.
4. Beck C., and Cohen E.G.D. Physica A 322 (2003) 267
5. Abe S., and Rajagopal A.K. Phys. Lett. A 272 (2000) 341
6. Hanel R., and Thurner S. Physica A 351 (2005) 260