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Physical Review Letters

Classical Green's Functions for the Ideal Gas

Michael J. Smith

Published Jun 22, 1970• 3 citations
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Abstract

We use the equation-of-motion technique to establish a chain of equations for retarded, double-time Green's functions of an ideal gas. Exact termination of this chain allows reproduction of the usual results obtained by other methods.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.24.1398

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