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In this chapter, we return to classical statistical mechanics, wherein the canonical ensemble averages of an observable \(A(\overrightarrow{x})\), where \(\overrightarrow{x} \) stands symbolically for the “microstate” coordinate in the configurational part of the phase space of the system, are given by (cf. Sect. 2.1.1)
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Binder, K., Heermann, D.W. (2010). Monte Carlo Methods for the Sampling of Free Energy Landscapes. In: Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics, vol 0. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03163-2_6
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