Canonical Ensemble - Relations With Other Ensembles

Relations With Other Ensembles

A generalization of this is the grand canonical ensemble, in which the systems may share particles as well as energy. By contrast, in the microcanonical ensemble, the energy of each individual system is fixed.

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