Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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974296 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2010 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
By considering a nonlinear combination of the probabilities of a system, a physical interpretation of Tsallis statistics as representing the nonlinear coupling or decoupling of statistical states is proposed. The escort probability is interpreted as the coupled probability , with Q=1−qQ=1−q defined as the degree of nonlinear coupling between the statistical states. Positive values of Q have coupled statistical states, a larger entropy metric, and a maximum coupled-entropy distribution of compact-support coupled-Gaussians. Negative values of Q have decoupled statistical states and for −2
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Authors
Kenric P. Nelson, Sabir Umarov,