Nonextensive statistical mechanics: a brief review of its present status
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- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by FapUNIFESP (SciELO) in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
- Vol. 74 (3) , 393-414
- https://doi.org/10.1590/s0001-37652002000300003
Abstract
We briefly review the present status of nonextensive statistical mechanics. We focus on (i) the central equations of the formalism, (ii) the most recent applications in physics and other sciences, (iii) the a priori determination (from microscopic dynamics) of the entropic index q for two important classes of physical systems, namely low-dimensional maps (both dissipative and conservative) and long-range interacting many-body hamiltonian classical systems.Keywords
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