Low temperature specific heat of glasses: a non-extensive approach

TL;DR

This paper applies Tsallis non-extensive statistics to model the low temperature specific heat of glasses, offering a novel approach that aligns with observed properties and fractal behavior.

Contribution

It introduces a non-extensive statistical framework to explain low temperature specific heat in glasses, bridging thermodynamics and fractal concepts.

Findings

Non-extensive statistics can describe low temperature specific heat of glasses.

A similarity exists between non-extensive and fractal specific heat temperature dependence.

The approach provides insights into glass thermodynamics at low temperatures.

Abstract

Specific heat is calculated using Tsallis statistics. It is observed that it is possible to explain some low temperature specific heat properties of glasses using non-extensive approach. A similarity between temperature dependence of non-extensive specific heat and fractal specific heat is also discussed.