Virial expansion coefficients in the harmonic approximation
arXiv:1205.2574 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.86.021115
Abstract
The virial expansion method is applied within a harmonic approximation to an interacting N-body system of identical fermions. We compute the canonical partition functions for two and three particles to get the two lowest orders in the expansion. The energy spectrum is carefully interpolated to reproduce ground state properties at low temperature and the non-interacting large temperature limit of constant virial coefficients. This resembles the smearing of shell effects in finite systems with increasing temperature. Numerical results are discussed for the second and third virial coefficients as function of dimension, temperature, interaction, and the transition temperature between low and high energy limits.
11 pages, 7 figures, published version
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