A Definition of the Ground State Energy for Systems Composed of Infinitely Many Particles

DOI10.1081/PDE-120019389zbMath1035.82004MaRDI QIDQ4805330

Pierre-Louis Lions, Xavier Blanc, Claude Le Bris

Publication date: 12 May 2003

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamic limitThomas-Fermi approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Variational methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M30)

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