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PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 385, Issue 2, Pages 501-517Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.07.004
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generalized thermostatistics; heat theorem; ensemble theory; canonical; microcanonical; tsallis; Gaussian
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We address the problem of the foundation of generalized ensembles in statistical physics. The approach is based on Boltzmann's concept of orthodes. These are the statistical ensembles that satisfy the heat theorem, according to which the heat exchanged divided by the temperature is an exact differential. This approach can be seen as a mechanical approach alternative to the well established information-theoretic one based on the maximization of generalized information entropy. Our starting point are the Tsallis escort ensembles which have been previously proved to be orthodes, and have been proved to interpolate between canonical and microcanonical ensembles. Here we shall see that the Tsallis escort ensembles belong to a wider class of orthodes that include the most diverse types of ensembles. All such ensembles admit both a microcanonical-like parametrization (via the energy), and a canonical-like one (via the parameter beta). For this reason we name them dual. One central result used to build the theory is a generalized equipartition theorem. The theory is illustrated with a few examples and the equivalence of all the dual orthodes is discussed. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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