A What's meant by D dimensional gas?

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As Avagadro states: "One mole of an ideal gas at STP occupies 22.4 liters." This doesn't seems counterintuitive since we know that we need a volume to compress the gas. But how can we explain quantum ideal gases. Especially in my case, Bose gases. Since well-known example is Helium 4, we might think this as our classical example in 3D (even that I'm not sure how much it is true).

Interesting question that I came up with this is: What is the correspondence of 'compressing' in other dimensions? A few searchs takes me to the some definitions; quantum wire, quantum well, quantum dots. Furthermore, for my cases I found that anyons (type of quasiparticles) can occur only in two dimensional systems. I know that it's nearly impossible to give this a physical picture but maybe you can help me to undertand the meaning of the dimensions in quantum mechanics.
 
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erbilsilik said:
I know that it's nearly impossible to give this a physical picture but maybe you can help me to undertand the meaning of the dimensions in quantum mechanics.

i think one can start to look at dimensions of a quantum system where on uses ' quantum mechanics' to explain its properties-then the picture is more clear- say one takes a classical oscillator and a quantum oscillator- and compare its properties or state - do we need extra dimensions vis-a-vis a classical oscillator?
 
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If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
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