Correlation inequalities and the thermodynamic limit for classical and quantum continuous systems
Abstract
We use Ginibre's general formulation of Griffiths' inequalities to derive new correlation inequalities for two-component classical and quantum mechanical systems of distinguishable particles interacting via two body potentials of positive type. As a consequence we obtain existence of the thermodynamic limit of the thermodynamic and correlation functions in the grand canonical ensemble at arbitrary temperatures and chemical potentials. For a large class of systems we show that the limiting correlation functions are clustering. (In a subsequent article these results are extended to the correlation functions of two-component quantum mechanical gases with Bose-Einstein statistics). Finally, a general construction of the thermodynamic limit of the pressure for gases which are not H-stable, above collapse temperature, is presented.
- Publication:
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Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF01611505
- Bibcode:
- 1978CMaPh..59..235F