I have a very limited knowledge of statistical mechanics, but I seem to running into some related concepts for my background readings for the research project this summer. For example, see the expressions for ρB and ZB between equations (C.19) and (C.20) in the attached image:
I have no idea how one has made the link between the density operator and the partition function and the Boltzman Distribution. I found the following notes (link: http://bohr.physics.berkeley.edu/classes/221/1011/notes/density.pdf) that seem to explain this topic in section 16, but I failed to understand them at all.
I won't be comfortable with statistical mechanics unless I take a full course starting next semester. In the mean time, if anyone could either link me to better explained notes or explain these concepts over here, that'd be great.
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