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To study thermodynamic properties of the system one needs to investigate its potential energy surface with respect to all degrees of freedom. There is a number of different methods for calculating the energy of many-body systems. The most accurate approaches are based on solving the Schrödinger equation. These approaches are usually referred to as ab initio methods since they involve a minimum number of assumptions about the system.
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Yakubovich, A.V. (2011). Partition Function of a Polypeptide. In: Theory of Phase Transitions in Polypeptides and Proteins. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22592-5_4
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