Recovering the chemical potential from the correlation functions

Fabio Frommer

Published 2023-12-20Version 1

Interacting particle systems in a finite volume in equilibrium are often described by a grand canonical ensemble induced by the corresponding Hamiltonian, i.e. a finite volume Gibbs measure. However, in practice, directly measuring this Hamiltonian is not possible, as such, methods need to be developed to calculate the Hamiltonian potentials from measurable data. In this work we give an expansion of the chemical potential in terms of the correlation functions of such a system in the thermodynamic limit. This is a justification of a formal approach of Nettleton and Green from the 50's.