Statistical mechanics constitutes one of the pillars of contemporary physics. Recognized as
such-together with mechanics (classical, quantum, relativistic), electromagnetism and …

Chemical and physical routes under conditions of moderate not extreme temperatures and
pressures are generally used to synthesize nanocrystals and nanostructures with …

Metaphors, generalizations and unifications are natural and desirable ingredients of the
evolution of scientific theories and concepts. Physics, in particular, obviously walks along …

Multilevel thresholding amounts to segmenting a gray-level image into several distinct
regions. This paper presents a 2D histogram based multilevel thresholding approach to …

An updated review (corresponding to the inaugural talk delivered at the The International
Workshop on Classical and Quantum Complexity and Nonextensive Thermodynamics …

Ergodicity, this is to say, dynamics whose time averages coincide with ensemble averages,
naturally leads to Boltzmann–Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics, hence to standard …

The basic aspects of both Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) and nonextensive statistical mechanics
can be seen through three different stages. First, the proposal of an entropic functional (S …

Under certain conditions, the rate of increase of the statistical entropy of a simple, fully
chaotic, conservative system is known to be given by a single number, characteristic of this …

Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics is based on the entropy S_\rmBG=-ki=1^Wp_i\lnp_i.
It enables a successful thermal approach to ubiquitous systems, such as those involving …

There is no compelling reason imposing that the methods of statistical mechanics should be
restricted to the dynamical systems which follow the usual Boltzmann–Gibbs prescriptions …