Packet 7: Tossup 10
Jean Ginibre (“zhee-NEE-bruh”) proved that this condition exists in the classical XY model, thus generalizing the Griffiths inequality for the Ising model. Ruelle’s method of symmetrization was used to formalize this condition in a landmark paper by Bogoliubov and Khatset, who demonstrated that the Kirkwood–Salzburg equations arise under this condition. Given a concave interaction potential under this condition, the microcanonical and canonical ensembles follow the same distribution. Under this condition, extensive variables are purely additive. This condition, for which fluctuations are essentially negligible, arises as a consequence of the law of large numbers for a multi-particle system. For 10 points, name this “limit” in which particle number and volume go to infinity at constant density, thus recovering a classical field from statistical mechanics. ■END■
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