Quantum Gases in the Microcanonical Ensemble near the Thermodynamic Limit

Abstract

A new method is proposed for a treatment of ideal quantum gases in the microcanonical ensemble near the thermodynamic limit. The method allows rigorous asymptotic calculations of the average number of particles and particle number fluctuations in the microcanonical ensemble. It gives also the finite-volume corrections due to exact energy conservation for the total average number of particles and for higher moments of the particle number distribution in a system approaching the thermodynamic limit. A present consideration confirms our previous findings that the scaled variance for particle number fluctuations in the microcanonical ensemble is different from that in the grand canonical ensemble even in the thermodynamic limit.