Canonical ensemble
ENSEMBLE OF POSSIBLE STATES OF A MECHANICAL SYSTEM AT A FIXED TEMPERATURE
Canonical Ensemble; Gibbs Ensemble; Canonical probability distribution; Gibbs canonical ensemble; Canonical distribution; Canonical distributions; NVT ensemble; Gibbs ensemble; Canonical Distributions
In statistical mechanics, a canonical ensemble is the statistical ensemble that represents the possible states of a mechanical system in thermal equilibrium with a heat bath at a fixed temperature. The system can exchange energy with the heat bath, so that the states of the system will differ in total energy.