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PHY 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2012

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lecture 13

entropy and information

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lecture 14

the grand canonical ensemble: the grand canonical partition function and the grand potential, fluctuations in the number of particles

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fluctuations in the grand canonical ensemble continued, non-interacting particles, chemical equilibrium, a gas in equilibrium with a surface of absorption sites

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gas in equilibrium with an absorbing surface, quantum ensembles, density matrix

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MIDTERM EXAM 10:30 am in BL 375

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quantum microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles, quantum harmonic osciallator at temperature T, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics, Pauli exlusion principle, occupation number representation, density matrix for two non-interacting particles

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lecture 18

two particle density matrix continued, quantum correlations as an effective classical pair interaction, N-particle partition function in the position-space basis, partition functions for non-interacting quantum ideal gas

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