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For a noninteracting (ideal) gas of spin S particles in a box of volume V, the single-particle states are labeled by a wavevector \(\mathbf k\) and a spin index \(\sigma \), where \(\sigma \) is the eigenvalue of \(S_z\), which assumes the \(2S+1\) values, \(\sigma =-S, -S+1 \dots S\).
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Berlinsky, A.J., Harris, A.B. (2019). Noninteracting Gases. In: Statistical Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28187-8_7
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