Chemical potential

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Classical thermodynamics[edit]

Definition:

where is the Gibbs energy function, leading to

where is the Helmholtz energy function, is the Boltzmann constant, is the pressure, is the temperature and is the volume.

Statistical mechanics[edit]

The chemical potential is the derivative of the Helmholtz energy function with respect to the number of particles

where is the partition function for a fluid of identical particles

and is the configurational integral

Kirkwood charging formula[edit]

The Kirkwood charging formula is given by [1]

where is the intermolecular pair potential and is the pair correlation function.

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