Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics

Metaphors, generalizations and unifications are natural and desirable ingredients of the evolution of scientific theories and concepts. Physics, in particular, obviously walks along these paths since its very beginning. This book focuses on nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics, one of the greatest monuments of

The domain of non-extensive thermostatistics has been subject to intensive research over the past twenty years and has matured significantly. Generalised Thermostatistics cuts through the traditionalism of many statistical physics texts by offering a fresh perspective and seeking to remove elements of doubt and confusion surrounding the area. The book

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "New Trends in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems" that was published in Entropy

This book presents insights into manganese oxides, which are materials with important technological applications such as magnetic refrigeration and magnetic sensors. It provides many mathematical proofs carried out in a didactic and elegant way; some of them use, for example, the method of mathematical induction. The book will be of

Magnetized plasmas in the universe exhibit complex dynamical behavior over a huge range of scales. The fundamental mechanisms of energy transport, redistribution and conversion occur at multiple scales. The driving mechanisms often include energy accumulation, free-energy-excited relaxation processes, dissipation and self-organization. The plasma processes associated with energy conversion, transport and