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The thermodynamic properties of an ideal gas of bosons can be obtained from the grand partition function
where the sum is over all single-particle states. In the thermodynamic limit, the pressure as a function of temperature and chemical potential is given by
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Salinas, S.R.A. (2001). Free Bosons: Bose—Einstein Condensation; Photon Gas. In: Introduction to Statistical Physics. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3508-6_10
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