thermodynamic limit

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thermodynamic
adjective[before noun]
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/ˌθɜː.məʊ.daɪˈnæm.ɪk/us
/ˌθɝː.moʊ.daɪˈnæm.ɪk/
relating to thermodynamics (= the area of physics connected with the action of heat and other types ...
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limit
noun
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/ˈlɪm.ɪt/us
/ˈlɪm.ɪt/
the greatest amount, number, or level of something that is either possible ...
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The system is assumed to become uniform and isotropic in thethermodynamiclimit.
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Essentially (11) gives the minimum amount of energy required to irreversibly process a given amount of information and (13) gives thethermodynamiclimitof computing speed per unit of power.
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Usually, a model is taken to thethermodynamiclimitby increasing the volume together with the particle number while keeping the particle number density constant.
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In contrast, the last term scales as the inverse system size and thus vanishes in thethermodynamiclimit.
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Since the dimension of the integral is given by the number of particles, the sign problem becomes severe in thethermodynamiclimit.
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However, the mean obtained for a given physical quantity doesn't depend on the ensemble chosen at thethermodynamiclimit.
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A heavy-ion collision is in neither thethermodynamiclimitof large volumes nor long times.
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In thethermodynamiclimit, these global fluctuations cease to be important.
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In general, almost all macroscopic volumes of gases, liquids and solids can be treated as being in thethermodynamiclimit.
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The limit of large systems in statistical mechanics is known as thethermodynamiclimit.
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By elementary considerations, the existence of thethermodynamiclimitthen follows.
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For systems which are in thethermodynamiclimit(that is, for infinite systems) the infinite sum can lead to singularities.
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A strangelet is not in thethermodynamiclimitof large volume, so it is like an exotic nucleus: it may carry electric charge.
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The differences vanish in thethermodynamiclimit, i.e., in the limit of infinite number of particles.
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At zero temperature in the critical region (inthermodynamiclimit) it scales logarithmically with the size of the block.
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It is at thethermodynamiclimitthat the additivity property of macroscopic "extensive" variables is obeyed.
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They are thus equivalent at thethermodynamiclimit.
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A more detailed discussion of thethermodynamiclimitcan be found in section 6.2.
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While this may seem like a strange requirement, it is actually necessary to preserve the existence of athermodynamiclimitfor such systems.
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