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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Rice, Stuart Alan, 1932-2024, editor.
• Dinner, Aaron R. (Aaron Reuven), editor.

Series:

• Advances in chemical physics.
• Advances in Chemical Physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2016.

Summary:

The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. This volume explores the following topics: * Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory for Associating Molecules * Path Integrals and Effective Potentials in the Study of Monatomic Fluids at Equilibrium * Sponteneous Symmetry Breaking in Matter Induced by Degeneracies and Pseudogeneracies * Mean-Field Electrostatics Beyond the Point-Charge Description * First Passage Processes in Cellular Biology * Theoretical Modeling of Vibrational Spectra and Proton Tunneling in Hydroen-Bonded Systems

Contents:

• 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

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 26, 2016).

ISBN:

• 9781119165170
• 1119165172
• 9781119165163
• 1119165164