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Asymptotic Exactness of Magnetic Thomas-Fermi Theory

Bergthor Hauksson, Jakob Yngvason

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0308028

Abstract

We consider the grand canonical pressure for Coulombic matter with nuclear charges Z in a magnetic field B and at nonzero temperature. We prove that its asymptotic limit as Z∞ with B/Z3 0 can be obtained by minimizing a Thomas-Fermi type pressure functional.

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