| 21. | The partition function is the volume of configurations, each configuration weighted by its Boltzmann weight.
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| 22. | It is derived in the same way as the partition function for the canonical ensemble.
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| 23. | In quantum mechanics, the partition function can be more formally written as a basis ):
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| 24. | Z _ t is the partition function, defined as:
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| 25. | For atoms the partition function values can be found in the NIST Atomic Spectra Database.
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| 26. | Thus they can be used as a kind of partition function for nonequilibrium steady states.
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| 27. | We want to know when the choice of sign of the partition function is ill-defined.
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| 28. | Applications on partition functions for strongly coupled correlated systems have shown promise of the method.
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| 29. | If hard-spheres are assumed, the partition function Q is
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| 30. | With the partition function obtained, a variety of physical quantities can be extracted as previously described.
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