Phase Transitions of Simple Systems

✍ Scribed by Stephen Berry, Boris Smirnov (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 42
• Edition: 1
• 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

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Excitations in Simple Atomic Ensembles....Pages 7-19
Structures of Ensembles of Interacting Particles....Pages 21-37
Thermodynamics of Dense Gases and Liquids....Pages 39-50
Clusters with Short-Range Interaction....Pages 51-74
Ensembles of Classical Particles with Repulsion....Pages 75-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Configurational Excitation and Voids in Ensembles of Bound Classical Atoms....Pages 99-119
Configurational Cluster Excitation with Pairwise Interactions....Pages 121-147
Phase Transitions in Macroscopic Systems of Atoms....Pages 149-162
Melting of Clusters and Bulk Atomic Ensembles....Pages 163-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Coexistence of Cluster Phases....Pages 179-198
Glassy States of an Ensemble of Bound Atoms....Pages 199-215
Transport of Voids in Nucleation Processes....Pages 217-230
Conclusion and Summary....Pages 231-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-245

✦ Subjects

Thermodynamics;Gases;Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas;Physical Chemistry