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In this chapter, we will describe some fundamental topics of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Furthermore, we will discuss the energy or particle number fluctuations in different statistical ensembles and their differences.
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Kamberaj, H. (2020). Principles of Statistical Mechanics. In: Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Statistical Physics: Theory and Applications. Scientific Computation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35702-3_3
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