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The thermodynamic limit for jellium

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The thermodynamic limit of the free energy, energy, pressure, and entropy is established for a neutral system of charged particles interacting with a fixed, uniformly charged background (jellium).

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Work partially supported by the National Science Foundation, grant GP31674X.

On leave from Departments of Mathematics and Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On leave from Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna, Austria.

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Lieb, E.H., Narnhofer, H. The thermodynamic limit for jellium. J Stat Phys 12, 291–310 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012066

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