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lecture 14
Entropy and information, the grand canonical ensemble
HW#3 due
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lecture 15
The grand canonical partition function and the grand potential, fluctuations of the number of particles
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spring recess
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spring recess
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lecture 16
Fluctuations of energy in the grand canonical ensemble, non-interacting particles, chemical equilibrium, a gas in equilibrium with a surface of absorption sites
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lecture 17
A gas in equilibrium with a surface of absorption sites, quantum statistical ensembles, density matrix operator
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MIDTERM EXAM 12:30 - 2:00 in Meliora 221
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lecture 18
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
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lecture 19
Density matrix for two non-interacting particles, quantum correlations as an effective classical pair interaction, N-particle partition function in the position-space basis
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