Constantino Tsallis

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Constantino Tsallis
Constantino Tsallis February 2010.jpg
Constantino Tsallis in 2010.
Born4 November 1943
Athens, Greece
NationalityGreek
CitizenshipBrazilian
Alma materUniversity of Paris-Orsay
Known forTsallis entropy and Tsallis statistics
AwardsPremio México de Ciencia y Tecnología (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsCentro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
(Brazilian Physics Research Center)

Constantino Tsallis (/ˈsælɪs/; Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Τσάλλης [ˈtsalis]; born 4 November 1943) is a naturalized Brazilian physicist of Greek descent, working in Rio de Janeiro at CBPF, Brazil.

Biography[]

Tsallis was born in Greece, and grew up in Argentina, where he studied physics at Instituto Balseiro, in Bariloche. In 1974, he received a Doctorat d'État ès Sciences Physiques degree from the University of Paris-Orsay. He moved to Brazil in 1975 with his wife and daughter.

Tsallis is credited with introducing the notion of what is known as Tsallis entropy and Tsallis statistics in his 1988 paper "Possible generalization of Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics" published in the Journal of Statistical Physics.[1] The generalization is considered to be a good candidate for formulating a theory of non-extensive thermodynamics. The resulting theory is not intended to replace Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics, but rather supplement it, such as in the case of anomalous systems characterised by non-ergodicity or metastable states.

One experimental verification of the predictions of Tsallis statistics concerned cold atoms in dissipative optical lattices. Eric Lutz made an analytical prediction in 2003 which was verified in 2006 by a London team.

Tsallis conjectured in 1999 (Brazilian Journal of Physics 29, 1;[2] Figure 4):

  1. That a longstanding (QSS) was expected in long-range interacting Hamiltonian systems (one of the core problems of statistical mechanics). This was verified by groups around the world.[who?]
  2. That this QSS should be described by Tsallis statistics instead of Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics. This was verified in June 2007 by Pluchino, Rapisarda and Tsallis (in the last figure, instead of the Maxwellian (Gaussian) distribution of velocities (valid for short-range interactions), one sees a q-Gaussian).

References[]

  1. ^ Tsallis, C. (1988). "Possible generalization of Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics". Journal of Statistical Physics. 52 (1–2): 479–487. Bibcode:1988JSP....52..479T. doi:10.1007/BF01016429. hdl:10338.dmlcz/142811.
  2. ^ Tsallis, C. (1999). "Nonextensive statistics: Theoretical, experimental and computational evidences and connections". Brazilian Journal of Physics. 29. arXiv:cond-mat/9903356. doi:10.1590/S0103-97331999000100002.

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