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Partition Function

The Partition Function is a fundamental scalar quantity in statistical thermodynamics that encodes the statistical distribution of an ensemble of states by summing over all possible microstates weighted by their Boltzmann factors, thereby serving as the normalizing constant for calculating thermodynamic properties.

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Some methods for classification and analysis of multivariate observations

James B. MacQueen · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1967 · 22.8K citations

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Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics

E. T. Jaynes · Physical Review · 1957 · 12.9K citations

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Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition

Lars Onsager · Physical Review · 1944 · 6.5K citations

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Black hole in three-dimensional spacetime

Máximo Bañados, Claudio Teitelboim, Jorge Zanelli · Physical Review Letters · 1992 · 3.9K citations · Full text

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Action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity

G. W. Gibbons, S. W. Hawking · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1977 · 3.5K citations

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    George E. Andrews

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

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    Jacob Bigeleisen

    Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States

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    A.A. Tseytlin

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

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    Eric Vigoda

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

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    University of Geneva, Switzerland

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