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Some links below point to physics arXiv. Please see this on how to obtain PDFs of articles in arXiv.
G. Cook and R.H. Dickerson (1995),"Understanding the chemical potential", American journal of Physics 63 (8) 737. Available for free at: https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/601/CM2019/EXTRA/understanding_chem_potential.pdf
Arieh Ben-Naim (2008), "Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense", World Scientific.
Sklar, Lawrence, "Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
Awesome website explaining quantum phenomena with simple simulation videos - http://www.quantummadesimple.com
Brief interview on Bose-Einstein Condensation by Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle - http://serious-science.org/bose-einstein-condensation-700
Animation explaining the formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MiGpWBaRCMa5r8R_W-pRF_lGL96VQaRV/view?usp=share_link
An interesting paper generalizing the idea of thermal wavelength - Z. Yan, Eur. J Phys., 21 (6), 625 (2000)
Interesting paper on obtaining both low and high-temp expansions of the chemical potential for Fermi and Bose gases - B. Cowan, J. Low Temp. Phys (2019) 197:412–444.
A brief discussion of the Landau Theory of Phase Transitions: http://stanford.edu/~jeffjar/statmech2/week4e.html
Video lecture on Landau Theory of Phase Transitions by Prof. J. Preskill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jBO3xeu6g
Brief description of the liquid gas phase diagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdydIssCV9Y
The Ideal Quantum Gas in the Canonical Ensemble (textbooks usually do it in the Grand Canonical Ensemble): Chi-Chun Zhou, Wu-Sheng Dai (2018), "Canonical Partition Functions". arXiv:1710.02819.