Generalized Statistical Mechanics of Complex Systems

Specific mission

Mission of the research unit is to develop equilibrium and non-equilibrium Statistical Physics and its interdisciplinary applications. Expertise ranking from theoretical physics, Computational physics and Modelling is available. Dissemination of the obtained results is guaranteed by active participation and organization of International Conference on the field, by publishing papers on international journal and by promoting collaborations with universities and industrial customers.

Main research topics

• Theoretical Aspects and Mathematical Formalism of Generalized Statistical Mechanics
• Foundations and Modeling of Statistical Physics
• Interdisciplinary applications of Statistical Physics.
• Generalized Kinetics of particles and photons in condensed matter systems
• Generalized transport theory (electric and thermal conduction, diffusion) in nano and mesoscopic systems
• Spinorial transport equations (spintronics) for electrons and holes in crystalline semiconductors
• Generalized Statistical methods in image processing
• Modeling of plasmas spark sintering in the fabrication of nanomaterials
• Computational methods in nanomaterial science

Main partnerships

• National Institute of Materials Science of Tsucuba (Japan)
• AIST (Japan)
• Graz University of Technology (Austria)
• ISC-CNR La Sapienza Roma (Italy)
• Katholieke University of Leuven (Belgium)
• Thales Alenia (Italy)
• Aviogroup (Italy)

Projects and publications

• Selected recent publications
  2016

  1. kappa-generalized models of income and wealth distributions: A survey
     Article
     

     Clementi, Fabio; Gallegati, Mauro; Kaniadakis, Giorgio; Landini, Simone
     THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. SPECIAL TOPICS
     EDP Sciences, Societa Italiana di Fisica and Springer Berlin Heidelberg
     Vol.225 pp.26 (pp.1959-1984) ISSN:1951-6355 DOI:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60014-2

  2. Study of steel-WC interface produced by solid-state capacitor discharge sinter-welding
     Article
     

     Maizza, Giovanni; Cagliero, Roberto; Iacobone, Alessandro; Montanari, R.; Varone, A.; Mezzi, A.; Kaciulis, S.
     SURFACE AND INTERFACE ANALYSIS
     John Wiley and Sons Ltd
     Vol.48 pp.5 (pp.538-542) ISSN:0142-2421 DOI:10.1002/sia.5945

  3. On the Boltzmann Equation of Thermal Transport for Interacting Phonons and Electrons
     Article
     

     Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
     MECHANICS, MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING JOURNAL
     Magnolithe
     Vol.2016 pp.13 (pp.1-13) ISSN:2412-5954 DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.2824.0885

  2015

  1. Micro-Macro Analysis of Capacitor Discharge Sintering in Copper-Diamond Bead
     Article
     

     DI NAPOLI, Paolo; Cagliero, Roberto; Maizza, Giovanni
     JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
     John Wiley & Sons
     Vol.98 pp.9 (pp.3538-3546) ISSN:0002-7820 DOI:10.1111/jace.13660

  2. A conservative multi-group approach to the Boltzmann equations for reactive gas mixtures
     Article
     

     Bisi, M.; Rossani, Alberto; Spiga, G.
     PHYSICA. A
     Elsevier
     Vol.438 pp.9 (pp.603-611) ISSN:0378-4371 DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2015.06.021

  3. Shannon, Tsallis and Kaniadakis entropies in bi-level image thresholding
     Article
     

     Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
     INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCES
     England: Alkhaer Publications
     Vol.4 pp.9 (pp.35-43) ISSN:2305-3925 DOI:10.18483/ijSci.626

  2014

  1. Electron–phonon interactions in the Fermi–Dirac spintronics
     Article
     

     Rossani, Alberto
     PHYSICA. A
     ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
     Vol.394 pp.9 (pp.90-98) ISSN:0378-4371 DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2013.09.066

  2. Finite-size effects on return interval distributions for weakest-link-scaling systems
     Article
     

     Hristopulos, D. T.; Petrakis, M. P.; Kaniadakis, Giorgio
     PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS
     American Physical Society (APS)
     Vol.89 pp.13 ISSN:1539-3755 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.89.052142

  2013

  1. Low-temperature spark plasma sintering of pure nano WC powder
     Article
     

     Grasso, S.; Poetschke, J.; Richter, V.; Maizza, Giovanni; Sakka, Y.; Reece, M. J.
     JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
     John Wiley & Sons Limited:1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis, P022 9SA United Kingdom:011 44 1243 779777, EMAIL: cs-journals@wiley.co.uk, INTERNET: http://www.wiley.co.uk, Fax: 011 44 1243 843232
     Vol.96 pp.4 (pp.1702-1705) ISSN:0002-7820 DOI:10.1111/jace.12365

  2. Theoretical Foundations and Mathematical Formalism of the Power-Law Tailed Statistical Distributions
     Article
     

     Kaniadakis, Giorgio
     ENTROPY
     MDPI
     Vol.15 pp.28 (pp.3983-4010) ISSN:1099-4300 DOI:10.3390/e15103983

  2011

  1. Modeling of the temperature distribution of flash sintered zirconia
     Article
     

     Grasso, S.; Sakka, Y.; Rendtorff, N.; Hu, C.; Maizza, Giovanni; Borodianska, H.; Vasylkiv, O.
     JOURNAL OF THE CERAMIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
     The ceramic society of Japan
     Vol.119 pp.3 (pp.144-146) ISSN:1882-0743 DOI:10.2109/jcersj2.119.144