Talk:Grand canonical ensemble

message: Not a physics expert, but is that formula missing a bracket? Also, which Hamiltonian are we talking about here? The Classical one or quantum one? Any help appreciated. Soo 17:39, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dirac brackets 

message: i suggest no merge. although no one has found the time to expand this stub, the grand canonical ensemble, like the microcanonical ensemble and canonical ensemble, certainly deserves its own page. Mct mht 02:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the above comment. --HappyCamper 05:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Similar agreement.  - Mostly anonymous student: 128.146.34.189 08:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  re merge tag 

message: The link seems to be of no relevance for me. As far as I see - I am not a specialist in it - it deals with some rather special questions concerning th canonical(!?) ensemble. In any case the referenced articles does not improve the understanding of thermodynamical potentials at all. 
Grand canonical ensemble is roughly a bag of canonical ensembles. 
In g.c.e, system exchanges particles and energy with the environment (or other systems in the ensemble);  In c.e, system only exchanges energy with the environment. I hope that I have made clear upon these points.  I didn't see too much relevance of the reference either. Czhangrice 21:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ornstein-Zernike 

message: Does anyone know if there is an official name to the logarithm of the grand canonical partition function? I ask because the log of other partition functions have specific names. Notably, the log of the canonical partition function is (up to a factor of temperature) the free energy while the log of the density of states(essentially the partition function of the microcanonical ensemble) is the entropy. Moreover, one could imagine defining a statistical ensemble at fixed pressure and temperature. The log of the associated partition function would then be the enthalpy. So does anyone have any idea about this? Joshua Davis 21:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, take a look at characteristic state function. So, for this case (grand canonical ensemble), it's related to pressure-volume work. --HappyCamper 23:46, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. I'm afraid this isn't quite what I had in mind, though. In particular, one doesn't define the pressure-volume work as the log of the grand canonical partition function. Rather, for extensive systems there is the identity, E=TS+PV+\mu N \,\; (I may have gotten some signs wrong and I'm assuming only one chemical species for simplicity). So if you do the appropriate Legendre(or Laplace) transforms to get to grand canonical ensemble, then you end up with  \log \Xi \sim PV \,\;. But for non-extensive systems(black holes, for example), this doesn't hold, I think. Similarly, the Gibbs free energy for extensive systems satisfies  G =  \mu N \,\;, but one doesn't define it this way. Joshua Davis 04:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logarithm of grand canonical partition function 

message: This article appears to be afflicted with the common textbook malady of starting to talk about something before making clear what the thing is. The concept of a thermodynamic ensemble is abstract and somewhat challenging to grasp. Despite the difficulty, there is no point discussing the subject at all without conveying the idea of what these ensembles are and why they were invented (I write "invented" rather than "discovered" because ensembles are strictly human ideas, definitely not anything which exists out in the world). I'm going to try adding some brief clarification about the basic concepts. I will be as accurate as I can, but if I make mistakes, I hope someone will correct them. Dratman (talk) 19:43, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree. I am a well-educated layman (beginning a PhD in Applied Mathematics), and I found this article lacked a general explanation to ground me in the subject matter. Furthermore, it lacks links to basic concepts such as Partition function (statistical mechanics). I am not qualified to edit this article, but I hope that somebody will. Chrislaing (talk) 01:14, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

text: Another significant problem of the article is that the definition of the grand-canonical partition function includes the fugacity, which is given as a function of the chemical potential. The chemical potential however is a thermodynamic quantity, which can not be derived from stat mech basic principles, but is rather recovered after linking stat mech to thermodynamics.The fugacity should be introduced as the one particle partition function summing over all its degrees of freedom.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.175.8.66 (talk) 12:18, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of exposition of fundamentals of the subject 

message: I split the previous section into two sections, at a logical place, in the hopes of stimulating someone to expand them.
The two sections are full of gold, but very condensed. I have to say I appreciate the summary list format, even though it's deprecated. Still, these sections need more prose -- to explain the connecting logic to a newcomer !!
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thread_title:  Sections "Properties of the grand ensemble" and "Grand potential, ensemble averages, and exact differentials" 

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