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Boundary conditions for crystals
As students on solid state physics, we are all taught to use the periodic boundary condition, taking 1D as an example:
$\psi(x)=\psi(x+L)$
where $L$ is the length of the 1D crystal.
My question is:
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Effect of boundary conditions on partition functions
While computing partition functions in statistical mechanics models (say) on a 2d lattice one usually makes use of "circular boundary conditions" which thus gives the lattice topology of a torus. It ...
