Is Tsallis Thermodynamics Nonextensive?

Eduard Vives and Antoni Planes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 020601 – Published 26 December 2001
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Abstract

Within the Tsallis thermodynamics framework, and using scaling properties of the entropy, we derive a generalization of the Gibbs-Duhem equation. The analysis suggests a transformation of variables that allows standard thermodynamics to be recovered. Moreover, we also generalize Einstein’s formula for the probability of a fluctuation to occur by means of the maximum statistical entropy method. The use of the proposed transformation of variables also shows that fluctuations within Tsallis statistics can be mapped to those of standard statistical mechanics.

  • Received 22 June 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.020601

©2001 American Physical Society

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Eduard Vives and Antoni Planes

  • Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Vol. 88, Iss. 2 — 14 January 2002

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