Departure from Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics makes the hydrogen-atom specific heat a computable quantity
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 51 (6) , 6247-6249
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.51.6247
Abstract
The specific heat of the (nonionized) hydrogen atom in free space cannot be calculated within Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics essentially because its partition function diverges. We show that a recently introduced generalized formalism can overcome this difficulty for qq characterizes the statistics; Boltzmann-Gibbs corresponds to q=1).Keywords
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