Advances in chemical physics . Volume 160 / / edited by Stuart A. Rice, Aaron R. Dinner

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (437 p.)
• Disciplina: 541
• Soggetto topico: Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
• Persona (resp. second.): RiceStuart A. <1932->; DinnerAaron R (Aaron Reuven)
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: TITLE PAGE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; EDITORIAL BOARD; CONTRIBUTORS LIST; PREFACE TO THE SERIES; THERMODYNAMIC PERTURBATION THEORY FOR ASSOCIATING MOLECULES; I. INTRODUCTION; II. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CLUSTER EXPANSIONS; III. SINGLE ASSOCIATION SITE: BOND RENORMALIZATION; IV. SINGLE ASSOCIATION SITE: TWO-DENSITY APPROACH; V. MULTIPLE ASSOCIATION SITES: MULTI-DENSITY APPROACH; VI. THE TWO-SITE AB CASE; VII. SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC AND DIRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION SITES; VIII. DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; IX. CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES ; PATH INTEGRALS AND EFFECTIVE POTENTIALS IN THE STUDY OF MONATOMIC FLUIDS AT EQUILIBRIUMI. INTRODUCTION; II. THE PI APPROACH; III. SEMICLASSICAL APPROACHES; IV. STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; V. THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VI. FLUID SYSTEMS; VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING IN MATTER INDUCED BY DEGENERACIES AND PSEUDODEGENERACIES; I. INTRODUCTION. SYMMETRY BREAKING AND SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING (SSB); II. DEFINITION OF SSB IN ATOMIC SYSTEMS AND MEANS OF ITS OBSERVATION; III. MECHANISMS OF SSB INDUCED BY DEGENERACY AND PSEUDODEGENERACY IN POLYATOMIC SYSTEMS ; IV. THEOREM: DEGENERACY AND PSEUDODEGENERACY ARE THE ONLY SOURCE OF SSB IN ATOMIC SYSTEMSV. DEGENERACY-INDUCED SSB IN INTERATOMIC AND INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; VI. SSB IN GAS-LIQUID AND LIQUID-SOLID TRANSITIONS AS DRIVEN BY DEGENERACIES; VII. LOCALLY TRIGGERED SSB INDUCING SOLID-STATE PHASE TRANSITIONS; VIII. SSB IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS AS RELATED TO DEGENERACIES; IX. GENERALIZATION: NATURE TENDS TO AVOID DEGENERACIES BY MEANS OF SSB; REFERENCES; MEAN FIELD ELECTROSTATICS BEYOND THE POINT CHARGE DESCRIPTION; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION ; III. POINT-ION WITH A STRUCTUREIV. FINITE-SPREAD PB EQUATION; V. SHORT-RANGE NON-ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; VI. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; FIRST-PASSAGE PROCESSES IN CELLULAR BIOLOGY; I. INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT; II. FRAMEWORK; III. APPLICATIONS; IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; THEORETICAL MODELING OF VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA AND PROTON TUNNELING IN HYDROGEN-BONDED SYSTEMS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. MODEL OF IR SPECTRA OF HYDROGEN-BONDED SYSTEMS; III. THEORETICAL SIMULATION OF EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA OF HYDROGEN-BONDED SYSTEMS
• Titolo autorizzato: Advances in chemical physics
• ISBN: 1-119-16517-2; 1-119-16516-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830582903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in chemical physics.