Existence of thermodynamics for real matter with coulomb forces

J. L. Lebowitz; Elliott H. Lieb

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.22.631

Existence of thermodynamics for real matter with coulomb forces

J. L. Lebowitz, Elliott H. Lieb

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It is shown that a system made up of nuclei and electrons, the constituents of ordinary matter, has a well-defined statistical -mechanically computed free energy per unit volume in the thermodynamic (bulk) limit. This proves that statistical mechanics, as developed by Gibbs, really leads to a proper thermodynamics for macroscopic systems.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	631-634
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	22
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.22.631
State	Published - 1969

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Existence of thermodynamics for real matter with coulomb forces

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