The existence of the thermodynamic limit for the system of interacting quantum particles in random media (Q1936413)

In this paper, the author considers a system of interacting quantum particles in presence of a random medium and proves the existence of (non-random) thermodynamic limits for the energy per particle (Theorem 3.5) as well as entropy (Theorem 3.9). The results are given under general assumptions, namely, a lower-bounded one-particle Hamiltonian and stable pair interactions (or compactly supported interactions). The main idea of the proofs is to establish sub-additive type inequalities and then use analogs of the sub-additive ergodic theorem. The last section contains a study of the thermodynamic limit for the energy density in the case of non-interacting particles.