{
  "id": "cond-mat/0005444",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2000-05-25T15:59:16.000Z",
  "updated": "2000-05-25T15:59:16.000Z",
  "title": "Comment on ``Scaling Laws for a System with Long-Range Interactions within Tsallis Statistics''",
  "authors": [
    "Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee",
    "Erik Luijten"
  ],
  "comment": "Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 470 (2000)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.470",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "In their recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4233 (1999)], Salazar and Toral (ST) study numerically a finite Ising chain with non-integrable interactions decaying like 1/r^(d+sigma) where -d <= sigma <= 0 (like ST, we discuss general dimensionality d). In particular, they explore a presumed connection between non-integrable interactions and Tsallis's non-extensive statistics. We point out that (i) non-integrable interactions provide no more motivation for Tsallis statistics than do integrable interactions, i.e., Gibbs statistics remain meaningful for the non-integrable case, and in fact provide a {\\em complete and exact treatment}; and (ii) there are undesirable features of the method ST use to regulate the non-integrable interactions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2000-05-25T15:59:16.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "tsallis statistics",
      "long-range interactions",
      "non-integrable interactions",
      "scaling laws",
      "general dimensionality"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}