Isothermal Compressibility and Mean Square Fluctuation
المؤلف:
Sidney B. Cahn, Gerald D. Mahan And Boris E. Nadgorny
المصدر:
A GUIDE TO PHYSICS PROBLEMS
الجزء والصفحة:
part 2 , p 43
30-8-2016
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Isothermal Compressibility and Mean Square Fluctuation
a) Derive the relation

where kτ is the isothermal compressibility:

b) From (a), find the relation between kτ and the mean square fluctuation of N in the grand canonical ensemble. How does this fluctuation depend on the number of particles?
SOLUTION
a) Let us use the Jacobian transformation for thermodynamic variables:

Since the chemical potential μ is expressed in P, τ and does not depend on N, we can write
(1)
where s = S/N and v = V/N are reduced entropy and volume respectively. Using the equation for the Gibbs free energy of a single-component system, G = μN, we can write

where we also used V = (∂G/∂P)τ. But from (1),

So finally

b) By definition the average number of particles in the grand canonical ensemble is

where Ω = F – μN. Now, from (a),

where N is an average number of particles:
(2)
where we have used 〈N〉 = -∂Ω/∂μ. So
(3)
From (3)

and

Since V is proportional to 〈N〉,

The relative fluctuation is given by

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