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1 online resource (xii, 492 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics |
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Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Outline; 2 Pair correlation function and structure factor of ions; 2.1 Liquid structure factor; 2.2 Ornstein-Zernike direct correlation function; 3 Thermodynamics; 3.1 Simple monatomic fluids; 3.2 Approximate methods; 3.3 Simple liquid metals; 3.4 Specifics; 3.5 One-component plasma as reference liquid; 4 Electron screening and effective ion-ion interactions; 4.1 Screening of impurity centre in electron liquid; 4.2 Lindhard dielectric function; 4.3 Introduction of exchange and correlation |
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4.4 Effective ion-ion interactions in simple (s-p) metals4.5 Structure factor of alkali metals modelled in terms of one-component plasma; 5 Interionic forces and structural theories; 5.1 Force equation; 5.2 Simple structural theories; 5.3 Refined structural theories: factorization of triplet correlations; 5.4 Inversion of structure factor to yield effective interionic pair potentials; 6 Statistical mechanics of inhomogeneous systems and freezing theory; 6.1 Single-particle density related to direct correlation function; 6.2 Free-energy difference between homogeneous and periodic phases |
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6.3 Relation to the hypernetted-chain method6.4 Verlet''s rule related to Lindemann''s law of melting; 6.5 Cluster expansion and density functional theory; 6.6 Other approximations; 6.7 Applications; 6.8 Correlation of melting temperature and vacancy formation energy; 6.9 Supercooling of liquid Rb; 7 Electronic and atomic transport; 7.1 Wiedemann-Franz law and Lorenz number; 7.2 Exact resistivity formula for finite-range spherical potential; 7.3 Weak scattering theory of electrical resistivity; 7.4 Hall coefficient; 7.5 Atomic transport; generalized Stokes-Einstein relation |
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7.6 Self-diffusion related to shear viscosity at the melting temperature8 Hydrodynamic limits of correlation functions and neutron scattering; 8.1 Self-motion in liquids and incoherent neutron scattering; 8.2 Frequency spectrum (or spectral function) g(co); 8.3 Van Hove dynamical structure factor S(k, CD); 8.4 Friction constant theory of transport; 8.5 Observation of collective modes; 8.6 Hubbard-Beeby theory; 8.7 Generalized shear viscosity in liquid Rb; 8.8 Transport in supercooled liquid Rb; 9 Critical behaviour; 9.1 Concept of order parameter |
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9.2 Liquid-vapour critical point: a second-order phase transition9.3 Ornstein-Zernike theory of static structure; 9.4 Predictions from more general equation of state; 9.5 Critical constants of fluid alkali metals; 9.6 Spinodal curves; 9.7 Dynamics of critical behaviour; 10 Electron states, including critical region; 10.1 Electron states in simple s-p metals; 10.2 Electronic structure of nonsimple liquid metals; 10.3 Partition function of a liquid metal; 10.4 Electron states in expanded liquid Hg; 10.5 Band model for electronic structure of expanded liquid caesium; 10.6 Optical properties |
| Summary |
Liquid metals remain of both fundamental and technological interest and the concepts needed to understand their properties are set out in this book, starting from a survey of the basic experimental facts to be explained. The quantitative theory of liquid pair correlation functions, effective ion-ion interactions, thermodynamic properties and electronic and atomic transport is then developed. The book goes on to discuss inelastic neutron scattering, critical behaviour, magnetism, the liquid/metal surface, binary liquid metal alloys, the two component theory of pure liquid metals, shock wave studies, liquid hydrogen plasmas and the constitution of giant planets |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-486) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Liquid metals.
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SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Inorganic.
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Liquid metals
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Flüssigmetall
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Vloeibare metalen.
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Métaux liquides.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316177952 |
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1316177955 |
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9780511563928 |
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0511563922 |
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9780511941306 |
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0511941307 |
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9781316173770 |
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0511870000 |
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9780511870002 |
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9781316174876 |
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9781316170540 |
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0521019613 |
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9780521019613 |
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1316176088 |
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9781316176085 |
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