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Vibrational partition function

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The vibrational partition function traditionally refers to a canonical ensemble where the energy levels arise from those of the quantum harmonic oscillator. It is a first order approximation to the partition function which allows one to calculate the contribution of the vibrational degree of freedom of molecules towards thermodyanmic variables.

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