Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Journal Club
| Date: | June 23, 2008 |
| Title: | Nonextensive statistics |
| Speaker: | Tridib Sadhu |
| Abstract: | Nonextensive statistics has been introduced as a possible generalization to
standard Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics in order to cover a variety of systems where
the latter breaks down. The generalization concerns nonextensive systems, where
nonextensivity is understood in thermodynamical sense. Since its introduction,
nonextensive statistical mechanics has made possible application to very many
natural and artificial systems. I will describe the formalism of the nonextensive
statistics and then discuss few possible theoretical and experimental evidences
as well as some criticism against the theory.
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