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Approaching the thermodynamic limit of an ideal gas

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: For a gas confined in a container, particle–wall interactions produce modifications to the partition function involving the average surface density of gas particles. While such correlations have a vanishing effect in the thermodynamic limit, examining them is beneficial for a sharper understanding of how the limit is attained. We contrast a classical and a quantum model of particle–wall correlations within the canonical ensemble.

Source: American Journal of Physics

DOI: 10.1119/5.0200913

Authors: Prabal Adhikari, Brian C. Tiburzi, Sona Baghiyan