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Title Phase transitions of simple systems / Boris M. Smirnov, R. Stephen Berry
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations
Series Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics, 1615-5653 ; 42
Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics ; 42.
Contents Thermodynamics of ensembles of classical particles. Excitations in simple atomic ensembles. Structures of ensembles of interacting particles. Thermodynamics of dense gases and liquids. Clusters with short-range interaction. Ensembles of classical particles with repulsion -- Configurational excitations and aggregate states of ensembles of classical particles. Configurational excitation and voids in ensembles of bound classical atoms. Configurational cluster excitation with pairwise interactions. Phase transitions in macroscopic systems of atoms. Melting of clusters and bulk atomic ensembles -- Dynamics of configurational excitations in ensembles of classical particles. Coexistence of cluster phases. Glassy states of an ensemble of bound atoms. Transport of voids in nucleation processes
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index
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Subject Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Quantum theory.
Thermodynamics.
Engineering.
Engineering
Thermodynamics
Quantum Theory
thermodynamics.
engineering.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
SCIENCE -- Energy.
Thermodynamics.
Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Quantum theory.
Physique.
Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Quantum theory
Thermodynamics
Form Electronic book
Author Smirnov, B. M. (Boris Mikhaĭlovich), 1938-
Berry, R. Stephen, 1931-2020
LC no. 2007933847
ISBN 9783540715146
3540715142
9783540715139
3540715134