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The thermodynamic limit of the free energy, energy, pressure, and entropy is established for a neutral system of charged particles interacting with a fixed, uniformly charged background (jellium).

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Lieb, E.H., Narnhofer, H. (2001). The Thermodynamic Limit for Jellium. In: Thirring, W. (eds) The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04360-8_39

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