arXiv:cond-mat/9911453 · International Journal of Modern Physics B
BEC IN NONEXTENSIVE STATISTICAL MECHANICS
LUCA SALASNICH
Abstract
We discuss the Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) for an ideal gas of bosons in the framework of Tsallis's nonextensive statistical mechanics. We study the corrections to the st and ard BEC formulas due to a weak nonextensivity of the system. In particular, we consider three cases in the D-dimensional space: the homogeneous gas, the gas in a harmonic trap and the relativistic homogenous gas. The results show that small deviations from the extensive Bose statistics produce remarkably large changes in the BEC transition temperature.