Statistical physics of nanoparticles in the gas phase. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Klavs Hansen.
• Authors: Hansen, Klavs
• Contents: Intro; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Basic Thermodynamic Concepts; 1.2 Ensembles; 1.3 The Microcanonical Ensemble; 1.4 The Level Density; 1.5 Temperature and Boltzmann Factor; 1.6 The Canonical Ensemble; 1.7 Mean Values in the Canonical Ensemble; 1.8 The Grand Canonical Ensemble; 2 The Relation Between Classical and Quantum Statistics; 2.1 Fermi and Bose Statistics of Independent Particles; 2.2 Classical Phase Space; 2.3 A Few Elementary and Useful Results from Classical Statistical Mechanics 2.4 Semiclassical Calculations of Spectra2.5 Quantum Corrections to Interatomic Potentials; 2.6 Classical Limits, Example 1: The Harmonic Oscillator; 2.7 Classical Limits, Example 2: A Free Particle; 2.8 Classical Limits, Example 3: A Particle in the Earth Gravitational Field; 3 Microcanonical Temperature; 3.1 Definition; 3.2 Finite Size Heat Bath; 3.3 Level Densities and Canonical Partition Functions; 4 Thermal Properties of Vibrations; 4.1 Normal Modes; 4.2 Thermal Properties of Harmonic Oscillators; 4.3 Debye Particles; 4.4 Degenerate Oscillators; 4.5 The Beyer-Swinehart Algorithm 4.6 Vibrational Level Densities from Canonical Quantities4.7 Other Computational Schemes; 4.8 Level Densities from Bulk Properties; 5 Rate Constants for Emission of Atoms and Electrons; 5.1 Atomic Evaporation; 5.2 Rate Constants with Microcanonical Temperatures; 5.3 Large Fragments; 5.4 RRKM Theory; 5.5 Electron Emission; 5.6 Kinetic Energy Release in Unimolecular Reactions; 5.7 Kinetic Energy Release in RRKM Theory; 6 Radiation; 6.1 Photon Level Density; 6.2 The Photon Emission Rate Constants; 6.3 IR Emission; 6.4 Photon Emission from a Metal Particle; 6.5 Recurrent Fluorescence 7 The Evaporative Ensemble7.1 Decay of Isolated Particles; 7.2 Abundances, Small Particles; 7.3 Evaporation of Large Standard Particles; 7.4 Rates for Large Particles; General Case; 7.5 Large Particle Abundances; 7.6 Kinetic Energy Release Revisited; 7.7 Metastable Decay Fractions; 7.8 Radiative Cooling; 7.9 Action Spectroscopy; 8 Abundance Distributions; Large Scale Features; 8.1 Liquid Drop Energies; 8.2 The Partition Functions; 8.3 Thermal and Chemical Equilibrium; 8.4 Polymerization; 8.5 The Smoluchowski Equation; 8.6 Conditions for Irreversible Aggregation; 8.7 The Break-up Terms 8.8 Solution of the Aggregation Equation8.9 Supersaturated Gases and the Critical Size; 8.10 Nucleation; 9 Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations; 9.1 Basics of Molecular Dynamics Simulations; 9.2 Thermostats in MD Simulations; 9.3 Measuring Temperature in MD Simulations; 9.4 Monte Carlo Simulations; 9.5 Microcanonical MC; 9.6 Random Number Generation; 9.7 Optimization: Simulated Annealing; 9.8 Optimization: Genetic Algorithms; 10 Thermal Excitation of Valence Electrons; 10.1 Electron Number Fluctuations in the Grand Canonical Ensemble
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 530.13; Physics; Statistical physics; Gas dynamics; Nanoparticles; Thermodynamics; SCIENCE / Energy; SCIENCE / Mechanics / General; SCIENCE / Physics / General; Science -- Mathematical Physics; Science -- Molecular Physics; Science -- Nanostructures; Science -- Mechanics -- Dynamics -- Thermodynamics; Science -- Physics; Statistical physics; Nuclear physics; Nanotechnology; Thermodynamics & heat; Science -- Quantum Theory; Atomic & molecular physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319900629; 3319900625
• Related ISBNs: 9783319900612
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed August 30, 2018).
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