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Practical aspects of the evaluation of a variational partition function

  • Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics
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Acta Physica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

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A Lippmann—Schwinger variational approximation to the thermodynamic partition function is used to investigate some practical aspects for the computation of approximate expressions to the partition function. Error estimates and asymptotic expansions are given. The approximate expressions are given in terms of simple integrals (or sums) which can really be computed, e.g. numerically.

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  1. Department for Mathematics, Martin-Luther University, Halle/s., GDR

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Lucht, W. Practical aspects of the evaluation of a variational partition function. Acta Physica 50, 349–357 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03157898

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