Entropy of a two-species classical ideal gas

ID: entropy-of-a-two-species-classical-ideal-gas

Two physically distinguishable noninteracting species with fixed particle numbers and the same single-particle partition function have the displayed canonical partition function. If , the leading large-particle-number entropy is . With and , this equals the one-species expression at total number plus . Merely attaching labels to otherwise identical indistinguishable atoms does not justify this mixing term.

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