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In this chapter, and the following one, we examine various applications of C*-algebras and their states to statistical mechanics. Principally we analyze the structural properties of the equilibrium states of quantum systems consisting of a large number of particles. In Chapter 1 we argued that this leads to the study of states of infinite-particle systems as an in it ial approximation. There are two approaches to this study which are to a large extent complementary.
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Bratteli, O., Robinson, D.W. (1997). Introduction. In: Operator Algebras and Quantum Statistical Mechanics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03444-6_1
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