Nonextensivity in nonequilibrium plasma systems with Coulombian long-range interactions.pdfVIP

arXiv: cond-mat/0404602 25 April 2004 Nonextensivity in nonequilibrium plasma systems with Coulombian long-range interactions Du Jiulin Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China E-mail: jldu@tju.edu.cn Abstract The nonextensivity in a non-isothermal plasma system with the Coulombian long-range interactions is studied in the framework of Tsallis statistics. We present for first time a mathematical expression of the nonextensive parameter q based on the mathematical theory about the generalized Boltzmann equation and the q-H theorem and the Maxwellian q-velocity distribution. We obtain a new physical explanation for q≠1 concerning the nature of non-isothermal configurations in plasma systems with Coulombian long-range interactions. We also provide one illustration for Almeida’s theorem (Physica A 300(2001)424) from the kinetic analyses of plasma systems, which means that Tsallis statistics might be a suitable statistics for the description of a nonequilibrium system with a temperature gradient in it. PACS number(s): 05.70.Ln, 51.10.+y, 05.20.-y, 05.90.+m 1 Almost all the systems treated in statistical mechanics with the Boltzmann-Gibbs (B-G) statistics have usually been extensive, this property holds for systems with short-range interparticle forces. When we deal with systems with long-rang interparticle forces such as Newtonian gravitational forces and Coulomb electric forces, where nonextensivity holds, the B-G statistics may need to be generalized for their statistical description. In addition to the long-range interacting systems, all dissipative systems, which have nonvanishing thermodynamic currents, appear not to be extensive [1]. In recent years, a nonextensive generalization of B-G statistical mechanics known as “Tsallis statistics” has focused significant attention [2-5]. This generalization was by constructing a new expression of entropy, , that depends on the nonextensiv