Nonrelativistic entropy at zero chemical potential
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Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-11-05
For a dilute nonrelativistic gas with and zero chemical potential, the Bose-Einstein distribution approaches the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Expanding in the number density integral gives . Since and , the entropy density at zero chemical potential gives and hence the displayed leading expression. This includes the internal multiplicity ; a single real scalar field has .
The displayed asymptotic uses natural units . Thus and are both energy scales, and is dimensionless. Restoring SI units replaces this ratio by and includes in the physical entropy per particle.
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