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In statistical mechanics, a canonical ensemble is the statistical ensemble that represents the possible states of a mechanical system in thermal equilibrium with a heat bath at a fixed temperature. The system can exchange energy with the heat bath, so that the states of the system will differ in total energy

Grand-canonical ensembles. So for these reasons we need to introduce grand-canonical ensembles. This will nally allow us to study quantum ideal gases (our main goal for this course). where ΩT (ET, δET, V, VR, NT ) is the multiplicity for the total system. This is the same as saying that the total probability to nd the system in a microstate with N microsystems that are located.

3 Grand canonical ensemble. Once again we put a small system ( ) in contact with a large one ( ). However, this time we do not only permit the exchange of energy but also the crossing over of particles from one subsystem to the other. Figure . : System in contact with an energy and particle reservoir: grand canonical ensemble. And as before we can write down the probability density in the phase space of the smaller system; it depends now both on the number of particles and on, as follows: (. 9). As a rule the - permitted - fluctuations of the number of particles remain small; in particular we have. Thus the grand ensemble is again equivalent to others ensembles of statistical mechanics. Example: Let us visit the ideal gas again.

The grand canonical ensemble is the ensemble that describes the possible states of an isolated system that is in thermal and chemical equilibrium with a reservoir (the derivation proceeds along lines analogous to the heat bath derivation of the normal canonical ensemble, and can be found in Reif). to take the macroscopic limit).

The grand canonical ensemble is also called the µV T ensemble. It describes systems in contact with a thermostat at temperature T and a particle reservoir that maintains the chemical potential µ. The system not only exchanges heat with the thermostat, it also exchange particles with the reservoir. The volume V remains xe. But the number of particles N and energy E uctuate at thermal equilibrium.

As with the canonical ensemble. The grand canonical partition function is the normalization factor. (T, V, µ) e−β{H(x)−µN(x)}, x.

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We can construct a grand canonical ensemble from the canonical ensemble depicted in Fig. . 5) in our thermodynamic summary in Chapter 2. This gave us a function Ω(T, V, µ) of variables T, V, and µ rather than a function F (T, V, N ) of variables T, V, and N. In introducing the grand canonical ensemble we have eectively made the same transformation of variables by summing over N. That is.