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Analysis contrasts classical and quantum particle-wall interactions on partition function in ideal gas, suggesting deeper thermodynamic insights.
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.
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