Existence of Thermodynamics for Real Matter with Coulomb Forces
- 31 March 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 22 (13) , 631-634
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.22.631
Abstract
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.Keywords
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