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Approaching the Thermodynamic Limit of an Ideal Gas
Prabal Adhikari, Brian Tiburzi, Sona Baghiyan·October 28, 2025·DOI: 10.1119/5.0200913
physics.class-phQuantum Physics
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Abstract
For a gas confined in a container, particle-wall interactions produce modifications to the partition function involving the average surface density of gas particles. While such correlations have a vanishing effect in the thermodynamic limit, examining them is beneficial for a sharper understanding of how the limit is attained. We contrast a classical and a quantum model of particle-wall correlations within the canonical ensemble.