It is shown that the soliton-gas phenomenology breaks down for the classical statistical mechanics of the sine-Gordon model. As a main cause of the breakdown, it is pointed out that the solitons and breathers in the gas phenomenology do not precisely represent the total degrees of freedom of the system.
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S. G. Chung (1990) studied this question.
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