Comment on ‘Thermodynamics of a particle in square well potential’

We argue that the approximate analytical expression for the canonical partition function for a particle in a box proposed recently was derived earlier by other authors in a more straightforward and efficient way. We also show that the canonical partition function for the particle in a finite box der...

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Veröffentlicht in:European journal of physics 2023-11, Vol.44 (6), p.68001
1. Verfasser: Fernández, Francisco M
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We argue that the approximate analytical expression for the canonical partition function for a particle in a box proposed recently was derived earlier by other authors in a more straightforward and efficient way. We also show that the canonical partition function for the particle in a finite box derived by the same authors is incorrect because they overlooked the contribution of the continuum spectrum.
ISSN:0143-0807
1361-6404
DOI:10.1088/1361-6404/acf905