Classical particles in the continuum subjected to high density boundary conditions
Abstract
We consider a continuous system of classical particles confined in a finite region of 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 and any fixed fugacity does not depend on boundary conditions produced by particles outside 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 is of Lennard-Jones type, i.e. it decays as (with ) where is the Euclidean distance between and , 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 from the origin as , where is any positive constant (even arbitrarily larger than the density of the system evaluated with free boundary conditions) and .
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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}
}