Thermodynamics of Van der Waals Fluids with quantum statistics

Understand

We consider thermodynamics of the van der Waals fluid of quantum systems.

• We derive general relations of thermodynamic functions and parameters of any ideal gas and the corresponding van der Waals fluid.
• This provides unambiguous generalization of the classical van der Waals theory to quantum statistical systems.
• As an example, we apply the van der Waals fluid with fermi statistics to characterize the liquid-gas critical point in nuclear matter.