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The 13 pages that link to Grand canonical ensemble, each with the reason it gives.

• Chemical potentialBroader topic: It treats chemical potential as the control parameter for particle exchange.

• Statistical mechanicsBroader topic: It permits particle-number fluctuations when the system is open to a reservoir.

• Fermi–Dirac statisticsNarrower topic: The distribution follows from treating particle number and energy exchange statistically.

• Boltzmann distributionRelated: Its state probabilities add particle-number weighting to thermal energy weighting.

• Bose–Einstein statisticsRelated: It yields the standard occupation distribution when particle number can fluctuate.

• Thermodynamic potentialRelated: Its natural potential is the grand potential, suited to variable particle number.

• Canonical ensembleCompared with: It relaxes the fixed-particle-number constraint and allows particle exchange.

• Microcanonical ensembleCompared with: It relaxes both fixed-energy and fixed-particle-number constraints.

• Thermodynamic limitRelated: Its particle-number fluctuations often simplify calculations in the thermodynamic limit.

• Quantum statisticsRelated: It provides the framework for distributions with a chemical potential.

• Bose–Einstein distributionRelated: The distribution follows by averaging state occupation in this ensemble.

• Gibbs paradoxRelated: Its particle-number weighting handles indistinguishable particles across variable populations.

• Particle statisticsRelated: It yields occupation distributions when particle number can vary.