Phase Transitions of Simple Systems

✍ Scribed by Smirnov B.M., Berry R.S.

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph develops a unified microscopic basis for phases and phase changes of bulk matter and small systems in terms of classical physics. The origins of such phase changes are derived from simple but physically relevant models of how transitions between rigid crystalline, glassy and fluid states occur, how phase equilibria arise, and how bulk properties evolve from those of small systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 42......Page 2
Phase Transitions
of Simple Systems......Page 4
ISBN 9783540715139......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Part I
Thermodynamics of Ensembles
of Classical Particles......Page 16
1
Excitations in Simple Atomic Ensembles......Page 17
2
Structures of Ensembles
of Interacting Particles......Page 30
3
Thermodynamics of Dense Gases and Liquids......Page 47
4
Clusters with Short-Range Interaction......Page 59
5
Ensembles of Classical Particles with Repulsion......Page 83
Part II
Configurational Excitations
and Aggregate States of Ensembles
of Classical Particle......Page 104
6
Configurational Excitation and Voids
in Ensembles of Bound Classical Atoms......Page 105
7
Configurational Cluster Excitation
with Pairwise Interactions......Page 126
8
Phase Transitions in Macroscopic Systems
of Atoms......Page 153
9
Melting of Clusters
and Bulk Atomic Ensembles......Page 167
Part III
Dynamics of Configurational Excitations
in Ensembles of Classical Particles......Page 181
10
Coexistence of Cluster Phases......Page 182
11
Glassy States of an Ensemble of Bound Atoms......Page 202
12
Transport of Voids in Nucleation Processes......Page 219
13
Conclusion and Summary......Page 233
References......Page 235

✦ Subjects

Физика;Термодинамика, молекулярная и статистическая физика;