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C) Two indistinguishable particles are to be placed in five cells. Enumerate thepossible macrostates and the corresponding microstates. |
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Expert's answer For two indistinguishable particles, a state before the particle exchange must be physically equivalent to the state after the exchange, so these two state DIFFER at most by a complex phase factor. If you had N coins. These are the CONSTITUENTS of your system and each has two POSSIBLE states: heads (H) and tails (T). There are 2N possible microstates. In place of state distributions, his macrostates specified the number of (distinguishable) elementary cells ASSIGNED k (indistinguishable) particles. His microstates, accordingly, did not further specify which particles are assigned to which cell, but rather, for each k , which cells are assigned k particles.
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