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| The '''Gibbs paradox''' serves to highlight the differences between indistinguishable particles and distinguishable particles, whose [[partition function]]s are distinct. | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
| #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1987279     Barry M. Casper and Susan Freier ""Gibbs Paradox" Paradox",  American Journal of Physics '''41''' pp. 509-511 (1973)] | #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1987279     Barry M. Casper and Susan Freier ""Gibbs Paradox" Paradox",  American Journal of Physics '''41''' pp. 509-511 (1973)] | ||
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The Gibbs paradox serves to highlight the differences between indistinguishable particles and distinguishable particles, whose partition functions are distinct.
References
- Barry M. Casper and Susan Freier ""Gibbs Paradox" Paradox", American Journal of Physics 41 pp. 509-511 (1973)
- Peter D. Pesic "The principle of identicality and the foundations of quantum theory. I. The Gibbs paradox", American Journal of Physics 59 pp. 971-974 (1991)
- E. T. Jaynes "The Gibbs Paradox", in Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics , Vol. 50 Kluwer Academic Publishers (1992)
- S.-K. Lin "Gibbs paradox of entropy of mixing: experimental facts, its rejection and the theoretical consequences", Electronic Journal of Theoretical Chemistry 1 pp. 135-151 (2001)
- Chih-Yuan Tseng and Ariel Caticha1 "Yet another resolution of the Gibbs paradox: an information theory approach", AIP Conference Proceedings 617 pp. 331-339 (2002)
