Semi-grand ensembles

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General Features

Semi-grand ensembles are used in Monte Carlo simulation of mixtures.

In this ensembles the total number of molecules is fixed, but the composition can change.

Canonical Ensemble: fixed volume, temperature and number(s) of molecules

We will consider a binary system;. In the Canonical Ensemble, the differential equation energy for the Helmholtz energy function can be written as:

,

where:

  • is the Helmholtz energy function
  • is the Boltzmann constant
  • is the absolute temperature
  • is the internal energy
  • is the pressure
  • is the chemical potential of the species "i"
  • is the number of molecules of the species "i"

Semi-grand ensemble at fixed volume and temperature

Consider now that we want to consider a system with fixed total number of particles,

;

but the composition can change, from the thermodynamics we can apply a Legendre's transform [HAVE TO CHECK ACCURACY] to the differential equation written above in terms of .

  1. Consider the change
<math> d \left( \beta A \right) = E d \beta - (\beta p) d V + \sum_{i=1}^2 (\beta \mu_i) d N_i </math