Rigid rotators and diatomic molecules via Tsallis statistics

We obtain an analytic expression for the specific heat of a system of N rigid rotators exactly in the high temperature limit, and via a perturbative approach in the low temperature limit. We then evaluate the specific heat of a diatomic gas with both translational and rotational degrees of freedom, and conclude that there is a mixing between the translational and rotational degrees of freedom in nonextensive statistics.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Chakrabarti, R. ; Chandrashekar, R. ; Naina Mohammed, S.S.
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 387.2008, 18, p. 4589-4598
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Nonextensivity \| Rigid rotators \| Perturbative method \| Diatomic molecule

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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