Free Energy of a System with Random Elements
- 1 September 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 39 (5) , 1224-1225
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1734418
Abstract
It is shown that the free energy of a system containing random elements, whose distribution is subject to some fixed probability law, is given by the expectation value of the logarithm of the partition function, considered as a random variable.Keywords
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- Remarks on the Vibrations of Diatomic LatticesReviews of Modern Physics, 1958