The high-temperature quantum-classical asymptotics conjecture

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Let Zq(β,h)Z_q(\beta,h) and Zc(β)Z_c(\beta) be the quantum and classical statistical sums, and let Eq(β,h)E_q(\beta,h) and Ec(β)E_c(\beta) be the corresponding quantum and classical mean energies. Here h>0h>0 is fixed and β\beta is the inverse temperature. High-temperature quantum-classical asymptotics conjecture. The following asymptotic equalities hold as β→+0\beta\to+0:

(2πh)NZq(β,h)∼Zc(β),(2\pi h)^N Z_q(\beta,h)\sim Z_c(\beta), Eq(β,h)∼Ec(β).E_q(\beta,h)\sim E_c(\beta).

These assertions propose the classical high-temperature limit for both the partition function and mean energy, but the source supplies no resolution.

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Lev Sakhnovich, “Comparison of Thermodynamic Characteristics in Ordinary Quantum and Classical Approaches and Game Theory”, arXiv:1010.4717 (2011).

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