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Typical thermodynamic parameters for materials include temperature, pressure, and chemical potential. Alternatively, we can replace any of these parameters with volume (pressure), entropy (temperature), and the number of particles (chemical potential), to match the experimental situation.
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Baldock, R.J.N. (2017). Introduction. In: Classical Statistical Mechanics with Nested Sampling. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66769-0_1
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