Comment on “Scaling Laws for a System with Long-Range Interactions within Tsallis Statistics”
- 10 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 85 (2) , 470
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.85.470
Abstract
In their recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4233 (1999)], Salazar and Toral (ST) study numerically a finite Ising chain with non-integrable interactions decaying like 1/r^(d+sigma) where -d <= sigma <= 0 (like ST, we discuss general dimensionality d). In particular, they explore a presumed connection between non-integrable interactions and Tsallis's non-extensive statistics. We point out that (i) non-integrable interactions provide no more motivation for Tsallis statistics than do integrable interactions, i.e., Gibbs statistics remain meaningful for the non-integrable case, and in fact provide a {\em complete and exact treatment}; and (ii) there are undesirable features of the method ST use to regulate the non-integrable interactions.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. LetKeywords
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