Plastino, A.; Curado, E.M.F.; Nobre, F.D. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 403 (2014) C, pp. 13-20
Given an arbitrary probability distribution and a nondegenerate energy spectrum, so that a mean energy U can be computed, we derive the partition function Z and the entropic functional S that satisfy the basic relation dU=TdS. The procedure is illustrated by considering examples of typical...