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arxiv: 1104.0697 · v1 · pith:7ZYAKNDDnew · submitted 2011-04-04 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech

Comment on: Thermostatistics of Overdamped Motion of Interacting Particles [arXiv:1008.1421]

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In a recent paper, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 260601 (2010) [arXiv:1008.1421], Andrade et al., argued that classical particles confined in a parabolic trap at T=0 distribute themselves in accordance with the Tsallis statistics. To prove their point the authors performed molecular dynamics simulations. Here we show that the model of Andrade et al. can be solved exactly. The distribution of particles at T=0 has nothing to do with the Tsallis entropy and is determined simply by the force balance.

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