The atomic and molecular nature of matter
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The atomic and molecular nature of matter
zbMATH Open document ID: 0621.60120
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/1
published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/39309
review text: The author proves that electrons and protons, interacting by Coulomb forces and governed by quantum statistical mechanics at suitable temperature and density, form a gas of hydrogen atoms or molecules. In order to prove the principal result the author obtains some estimates for the partition function for a single ball and for Coulomb systems. In the other part he explains how to estimate the expected values of certain observables and illustrates, as an application, that the vast majority of the electrons and protons pair up into ''atoms''.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60K35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82D30
zbMATH DE Number: 4007432
zbMATH Keywords: interacting by Coulomb forces
zbMATH Keywords: quantum statistical mechanics
zbMATH Keywords: Coulomb systems
author: Charles Fefferman
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2081037943
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4007432