Reconsideration of Temperature Determined by the Excited-State Population Distribution of Hydrogen Atoms Based on Tsallis Entropy and Its Statistics in Hydrogen Plasma in Non-Equilibrium State
Koji Kikuchi,
Hiroshi Akatsuka
Abstract:In non-equilibrium plasmas, the temperature cannot be uniquely determined unless the energy-distribution function is approximated as a Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. To overcome this problem, we applied Tsallis statistics to determine the temperature with respect to the excited-state populations in non-equilibrium state hydrogen plasma, which enables the description of its entropy that obeys q-exponential population distribution in the non-equilibrium state. However, it is quite difficult to apply the q-expon… Show more
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