On a heuristic point of view related to quantum nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
In this paper I propose a new way for counting the microstates of a system out of equilibrium. As, according to quantum mechanics, things happen as if a given particle can be found in more than one state at once, I extend this concept to propose the coherent access by a particle to the available states of a system. By coherent access I mean the possibility for the particle to act as if it is populating more than one microstate at once. This hypothesis has experimental implications, since the thermodynamical probability and, as a consequence, the Bose–Einstein distribution as well as the argument of the Boltzmann factor is modified.
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2008
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Authors: | Almeida, Norton G. de |
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 387.2008, 23, p. 5772-5777
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Tsallis entropy | Nonextensivity | Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics |
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