Eur. Phys. J. D 65, 441-445 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2011-20432-5

Regular Article

Self-consistent modelling of hot plasmas within non-extensive Tsallis’ thermostatistics

CEA, DAM, DIF, 91297 Arpajon, France

^a e-mail: jean-christophe.pain@cea.fr

Received: 10 July 2011
Published online: 22 November 2011

Abstract

A study of the effects of non-extensivity on the modelling of atomic physics in hot dense plasmas is proposed within Tsallis’ statistics. The electronic structure of the plasma is calculated through an average-atom model based on the minimization of the non-extensive free energy.