Abstract
We show through a nonlinear Fokker-Planck formalism, and confirm by
molecular dynamics simulations, that the overdamped motion of interacting particles at T = 0, where T is the temperature of a thermal
bath connected to the system, can be directly associated with Tsallis
thermostatistics. For sufficiently high values of T, the distribution of
particles becomes Gaussian, so that the classical Boltzmann-Gibbs
behavior is recovered. For intermediate temperatures of the thermal
bath, the system displays a mixed behavior that follows a novel type of
thermostatistics, where the entropy is given by a linear combination of
Tsallis and Boltzmann-Gibbs entropies.
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