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Limits are essential to the asymptotic Bohrification program. It was recognized at an early stage in the development of quantum mechanics that the limit \(\hbar \rightarrow 0\) of Planck’s constant going to zero should play a role in the derivation of classical physics from quantum theory, and later on also the thermodynamic limit (which often means “\(\text {lim}_{{N} {\rightarrow } {\infty }}\)”, where N is the number of particles in the system) became a subject of interest in quantum statistical mechanics.
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Landsman, K. (2017). Limits: Small \(\hbar \) . In: Foundations of Quantum Theory. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 188. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51777-3_7
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