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In the previous section we analyzed properties of individual KMS states and affine properties of the set of KMS states. But hitherto we made no attempts to justify the interpretation of KMS states as equilibrium states of quantummechanical systems. The purpose of this section is to remedy this omission.
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Bratteli, O., Robinson, D.W. (1997). Stability and Equilibrium. In: Operator Algebras and Quantum Statistical Mechanics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03444-6_4
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