The notion of quantum discord introduced by Ollivier and Zurek [Phys. Rev. Lett 88 (2001) 017901] (see also Henderson and Vedral [J. Phys. A 34 (2001) 6899] ) has attracted increasing attention, in recent years, as an entropic quantifier of non-classical features pertaining to the correlations...

Tsallis maximum entropy distributions provide useful tools for the study of a wide range of scenarios in mathematics, physics, and other fields. Here we apply a Tsallis maximum entropy ansatz, the q-Gaussian, to obtain time dependent wave-packet solutions to a nonlinear Schrödinger equation...

In this work, we examine two different measures for inhomogeneity and complexity that are derived from non-extensive considerations à la Tsallis. Their performance is then tested on theoretically generated patterns. All measures are found to exhibit a most sensitive behaviour for Sierpinski...

A Statistical Complexity measure has been recently proposed to quantify the performance of chaotic Pseudorandom number generators (PRNG) (Physica A 354 (2005) 281). Here we revisit this quantifier and introduce two important improvements: (i) consideration of an intensive statistical complexity...

We revisit the first law of thermodynamics for nonextensive statistics by recourse to the optimal Lagrange multipliers (OLM) formalism. We show firstly that information theory allows one to obtain thermodynamics' first law in a general ensemble by dealing just with variations in the density...

Tsallis’ non-extensive thermostatistics (Tsallis et al., Physica A 261 (1998) 534; Tsallis, in: Abe, Okamoto (Eds.), Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer, Berlin, 2000; Tsallis, Braz. J. Phys. 29 (1991) 1; Plastino and Plastino, in: Ludeña (Ed.),...

We investigate the main features of a pilot wave representation of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation recently advanced by Nobre, Rego-Monteiro, and Tsallis (NRT) on the basis of Tsallis q-thermo-statistical formalism. The present approach sheds new light upon the NRT equation. In particular,...

We give an exact information-theory treatment of the n-dimensional black-body radiation process in a non-extensive scenario. We develop a q-generalization of the laws of (i) Stefan–Boltzmann, (ii) Planck, and (iii) Wien, and show that conventional, canonical results are obtained at...

An investigation is undertaken of semiclassical time-evolutions and their classical limit with the intent of getting insights into the classical–quantum frontier. We deal with a system that represents the interaction between matter and a given field, and our main research tool is the so-called...

We study mixed quantum states described by a statistical operator ρ̂=B̂n,n real, with B̂ quadratic in the position and momentum operators. These states are parameterized as density matrices exhibiting the maximum q-entropy (q-MaxEnt) form. They can be regarded as the mixed-state counterpart...