Quantum implications of non-extensive statistics

Abstract

Exploring the analogy between quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics we formulate an integrated version of the Quantropy functional [1]. With this prescription we compute the propagator associated to Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics in the semiclassical approximation as $K=F(T)\exp \left(i{S}_{cl}/\hslash \right)$. We determine also propagators associated to different non-additive statistics; those are the entropies depending only on the probability $S_{\pm }$ [2] and Tsallis entropy $S_q$ [3]. For $S_{\pm }$ we obtain a power series solution for the probability vs. the energy, which can be analytically continued to the complex plane, and employed to obtain the propagators. Our work is motivated by [4] where a modified q-Schrödinger equation is obtained; that provides the wave function for the free particle as a q-exponential. The modified q-propagator obtained with our method, leads to the same q-wave function for that case. The procedure presented in this work allows to calculate q-wave functions in problems with interactions; determining non-linear quantum implications of non-additive statistics. In a similar manner the corresponding generalized wave functions associated to $S_{\pm }$ can also be constructed. The corrections to the original propagator are explicitly determined in the case of a free particle and the harmonic oscillator for which the semi-classical approximation is exact.

9 pages, 9 figures, 1 appendix