Asymptotic exactness of finite temperature Thomas-Fermi theory

✍ Scribed by H Narnhofer; W Thirring

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 528 KB
• Volume: 134
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(81)90008-7

✦ Synopsis

By using entropy inequalities with coherent states we prove that for atoms and molecules the partition function of Thomas-Fermi theory becomes exact in the limit Z+ co, in the appropriate scaling. Furthermore the Gibbs state over a suitable algebra converges to a pure state over classical densities in phase space. * Work supported in part by Fonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Gsterreich, Project 3569.