# Quantum implications of non-extensive statistics

## TL;DR

This paper develops a unified framework linking quantum mechanics and non-extensive statistical mechanics, deriving propagators for various entropy types, and exploring their implications for quantum wave functions and non-linear quantum phenomena.

## Contribution

It introduces an integrated Quantropy functional approach to derive quantum propagators for non-additive entropies, extending the q-Schrödinger equation to interacting systems.

## Key findings

- Derived propagators for Tsallis and $S_{\pm}$ entropies.
- Obtained analytical solutions for probability-energy relations.
- Explicitly calculated corrections for free particles and harmonic oscillators.

## 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 $K=F(T) \exp\left(i S_{cl}/\hbar\right)$. 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-Schr\"odinger 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.