Fun with the chemical potential: an exploration of the quantum/classical divide

This post offers a paper a wrote a few years ago for a workshop in beautiful Buenos Aires in which we explored the puzzle of distinguishability and indistinguishability in physics. Under what conditions can we consider physical objects distinguishable, and when must we assume they are indistinguishable? It turns out that a somewhat obscure quantity … Continue reading Fun with the chemical potential: an exploration of the quantum/classical divide