March

March

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lecture 14

Entropy and information
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lecture 15

The grand potential, fluctuations of the number of particles, fluctuations of energy in the grand canonical ensemble

HW #3 due
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spring break

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lecture 16

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

HW #4 due
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lecture 17

Quantum statistical ensembles, density matrix operator, 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 18

Particle in a box states, density matrix for two non-interacting particles, quantum correlations as an effective classical pair interaction, N-particle partition function in the position-space basis, the partition function in the occupation number representation

make-up lecture, 10:25 - 11:40 am
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lecture 19

Partition functions for non-interacting quantum and classical ideal gas, average occupation number, the classical vs quantum limits of the ideal gas

HW #5 due
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