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Approaching the Thermodynamic Limit of an Ideal Gas

Classical Physics 2026-03-04 v1 Quantum Physics

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.

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@article{arxiv.2510.24552,
  title  = {Approaching the Thermodynamic Limit of an Ideal Gas},
  author = {Prabal Adhikari and Brian Tiburzi and Sona Baghiyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24552},
  year   = {2026}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the American Journal of Physics