Non-Extensive Statistics in Free-Electron Metals and Thermal Effective Mass

Abstract

We have applied the non-extensive statistical mechanics to free electrons in several metals to calculate the electronic specific heat at low temperature. In this case, the Fermi-Dirac (FD) function is modified from its Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) form, with the exponential part going to a $q$-exponential, in its non-extensive form. In most cases, the non-extensive parameter, $q$, is found to be greater than unity to produce the correct thermal effective mass, $m^{\ast }$, of electrons. The ratio $m^{\ast }/m$ is found to show a nice systematic dependence on $q$. Results indicate, electrons in metals, in the presence of long range correlations are reasonably well described by Tsallis statistics.

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