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Equilibrium between energies involving mass and energies not involving mass in terms of atoms

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All matter exists, occupying a space with different density from its interior, and all mass exists, with its space being measured from the exterior. Accordingly, even in the simplest monatom, the energies of its interior and exterior must be balanced on a boundary along the interface. The atom can be considered as the end product of stored energy from a bottom-up perspective, and also as the final product of a split material from a top-down view. This fact implies that the maximum spatial energy of an atom coincides with its minimum mass energy through some examples based on thermodynamics.

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Jiye Kim and Baro Jin for their cordiality and hospitality during the course of this research.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2019R1A6A1A11055660). Changhyun Jin was supported by the Korea Initiative for fostering University of Research and Innovation (KIURI) Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (NRF-2020M3H1A1077207).

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Jin, C. Equilibrium between energies involving mass and energies not involving mass in terms of atoms. MRS Communications 13, 156–161 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-023-00327-4

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