Grand canonical ensemble

Ensemble variables

• Chemical Potential, $\left.\mu \right.$

• Volume, $\left.V\right.$

• Temperature, $\left.T\right.$

Partition Function

Classical partition function (one-component system) in a three-dimensional space: $Q_{\mu VT}$

$Q_{\mu VT}=\sum _{N=0}^{\infty }{\frac {\exp \left[\beta \mu N\right]V^{N}}{N!\Lambda ^{3N}}}\int d(R^{*})^{3N}\exp \left[-\beta U\left(V,(R^{*})^{3N}\right)\right]$

where:

• $\left.N\right.$ is the number of particles

• $\left.\Lambda \right.$ is the de Broglie thermal wavelength (which depends on the temperature)

• $\beta ={\frac {1}{k_{B}T}}$, with $k_{B}$ being the Boltzmann constant

• $\left.U\right.$ is the potential energy, which depends on the coordinates of the particles (and on the interaction model)

• $\left(R^{*}\right)^{3N}$ represent the $3N$ position coordinates of the particles (reduced with the system size): i.e. Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \int d (R^*)^{3N} = 1 }

Free energy and Partition Function

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The corresponding thermodynamic potentail for the grand canonical partition function is:

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i.e.:

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