Statistical Physics of Crystals and Liquids: A Guide to Highly Accurate Equations of State

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Wallace (Los Alamos National Laboratory) constructs the complete Hamiltonian for crystals, amorphous solid, and liquid elements, representing the ground-state energy with static nuclei, the motion of nuclei, excitation of electrons from their ground-state, and interaction between nuclear motion and electronic excitation. He then presents liquid dynamics theory based on this Hamiltonian and compares the theory and experiment over a range of properties for crystals and liquids.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Professor Emeritus Norman H Mareh, Oxford University, England
valuable and dearly written book in an important area of condensed matter theory


Walt Harrison Stanford University, USA
an authoritative account of the physics and thermodynamics behind an understanding of the equation of state


Y Horie, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Whatever the author does, he does it first class


David Young Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
good introduction to the capability of modern statistical physics for accurate prediction of thermodynamic functions


Brad Clements Los Alamos National Laboratory
an extremely powerful resource to any researcher working in condensed matter physics and equation of state theory


Zentralblatt MATH
The investigated subjects make this book very useful for specialists in statistical mechanics and structure of matter.


Book Description
This important book presents a unified formulation from first principles of the Hamiltonian and statistical mechanics of metallic and insulating crystals, amorphous solids, and liquids. Extensive comparison of theory and experiment provides an accurate understanding of the statistical properties of phonons, electrons, and phonon-phonon and electron-phonon interactions in elemental crystals and liquids. Questions are posed along the following lines: What is the "best" theory for a given property? How accurate is a good theory? What information is gained by a comparison of theory and experiment? How accurate is a good experiment?


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Wallace (Los Alamos National Laboratory) constructs the complete Hamiltonian for crystals, amorphous solid, and liquid elements, representing the ground-state energy with static nuclei, the motion of nuclei, excitation of electrons from their ground-state, and interaction between nuclear motion and electronic excitation. He then presents liquid dynamics theory based on this Hamiltonian and compares the theory and experiment over a range of properties for crystals and liquids. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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