Exchange contribution to the second virial coefficient

ID: exchange-contribution-to-the-second-virial-coefficient

For a single internal species of noninteracting particles with quadratic dispersion in three dimensions, expand the grand canonical partition function at small quantum gas fugacity. With for bosons and for fermions, and . Eliminating gives . Bosonic bunching lowers the pressure at fixed density; fermionic exclusion raises it. This correction needs no interaction potential. For equally populated internal species, the coefficient in terms of total number density is reduced by . In the dilute one-species limit the equal-time pair detection correlation is . The exchange contribution to the two-particle cluster integral is therefore , providing a direct pair-counting check of the coefficient.

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