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Classical particles in the continuum subjected to high density boundary conditions

Mathematical Physics 2020-09-18 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We consider a continuous system of classical particles confined in a finite region Λ\Lambda of Rd\mathbb{R}^d interacting through a superstable and tempered pair potential in presence of non free boundary conditions. We prove that the thermodynamic limit of the pressure of the system at any fixed inverse temperature β\beta and any fixed fugacity λ\lambda does not depend on boundary conditions produced by particles outside Λ\Lambda whose density may increase sub-linearly with the distance from the origin at a rate which depends on how fast the pair potential decays at large distances. In particular, if the pair potential v(xy)v(x-y) is of Lennard-Jones type, i.e. it decays as C/xyd+pC/\|x-y\|^{d+p} (with p>0p>0) where xy\|x-y\| is the Euclidean distance between xx and yy, then the existence of the thermodynamic limit of the pressure is guaranteed in presence of boundary conditions generated by external particles which may be distributed with a density increasing with the distance rr from the origin as ρ(1+rq)\rho(1+ r^q), where ρ\rho is any positive constant (even arbitrarily larger than the density ρ0(β,λ)\rho_0(\beta,\lambda) of the system evaluated with free boundary conditions) and q12min{1,p}q\le {1\over 2}\min\{1, p\}.

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@article{arxiv.2009.07917,
  title  = {Classical particles in the continuum subjected to high density boundary conditions},
  author = {Aldo Procacci and Sergio A. Yuhjtman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.07917},
  year   = {2020}
}