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1Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino, I-10129 Torino, Italy.
Abstract:
We study the thermostatistics of q-deformed bosons and fermions obeying the symmetric (q<-->q(-1)) algebra and show that it can be built on the formalism of q calculus. The entire structure of thermodynamics is preserved if ordinary derivatives are replaced by an appropriate Jackson derivative. In this framework, we derive the most important thermodynamic functions describing the q-boson and q-fermion ideal gases in the thermodynamic limit. We also investigate the semiclassical limit and the low-temperature regime and demonstrate that the nature of the q deformation gives rise to pure quantum statistical effects stronger than undeformed boson and fermion particles.
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