A fundamental framework of thermo field dynamics (TFD), including non-equilibrium situations as well as equilibrium stuations, is formulated through a compact axiomatic form, in which no reference to reservoirs is needed, by considering quantum fields. The semi-free quantum fields in TFD are constructed in a way parallel to that of the usual quantum field theory without thermal degrees of freedom, i.e. in terms of orthonormalization relations among wave functions, the sum rule for wave functions, the divisor operator and the particle-antiparticle conjugation (C-conjugation).
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