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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
No detailed description available for "Energy Landscapes, Inherent Structures, and Condensed-Matter Phenomena".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (523 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781400873975
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4012404
DDC:
530.4/1
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Potential Energy Functions -- A. Quantum Mechanical Basis -- B. Properties of Electronic Ground and Excited States -- C. Mathematical Attributes of Potential Energy Functions -- D. Model Potential Functions: Simple Particles -- E. Model Potential Functions: Complex Particles -- II. Statistical Mechanical Basics -- A. Density Matrices -- B. Thermal Equilibrium -- C. Open Systems -- D. Classical Limit -- E. Reduced Density Matrices and Distribution Functions -- F. Thermodynamic Properties -- G. Transport Phenomena -- H. Phase Transitions-A Preview -- III. Basins, Saddles, and Configuration-Space Mapping -- A. Steepest Descent Mapping -- B. Hypersurface Curvatures -- C. Inherent-Structure Enumeration -- D. Partition Function Transformations -- E. Phase Transitions-An Overview -- F. Interbasin Transitions -- G. Metastable Phases -- H. Distribution Function Mapping -- IV. Crystal Phases -- A. Bravais Lattices -- B. Phonons -- C. Anharmonic Effects -- D. Crystal Structural Defects -- E. Interchange Order-Disorder Transitions -- F. Orientational Order-Disorder Transitions -- G. Thermal Conductivity of Insulators -- H. Static Dielectric Constant of Insulators -- I. Melting -- V. Liquids at Thermal Equilibrium -- A. Some Experimental Observations -- B. Enumeration of Liquid-Phase Basins -- C. Separation of Contributions -- D. Hard-Sphere Limit -- E. Critical Points -- F. Static Dielectric Constant -- G. Electrolytic Liquids -- H. Liquid Interfaces -- I. Liquid-Phase Transport Properties -- J. Freezing Transitions -- VI. Supercooled Liquids and Glasses -- A. Basic Phenomena -- B. Landscape Characteristics -- C. Glasses at Low Temperature -- D. Ideal Glass Transition Hypothesis -- E. Estimating σa(φ), σ̂a(φ̂) Numerically -- F. Crystal Nucleation and Growth -- VII. Low-Density Matter.
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A. Cluster Inherent Structures and Basins -- B. Asymptotic Inherent-Structure Enumeration -- C. Virial Expansions -- D. Cluster Melting -- E. Interacting Clusters -- F. Metastability Extensions -- VIII. The Helium Isotopes -- A. Experimental Phase Diagrams -- B. Ground-State Wave Functions -- C. Phonon Excitations -- D. Inherent Structures -- IX. Water -- A. Molecular Interactions -- B. Phase Diagram -- C. Ices Ih and Ic -- D. Anomalous Liquid Thermodynamic Properties -- E. Shear Viscosity and Self-Diffusion -- F. Liquid Pair Correlation Functions -- G. Ionic Dissociation -- H. Surface Properties -- I. Solvent Characteristics -- J. Amorphous Solid Water -- X. Polymeric Substances -- A. Polymer Chemical Structures and Classes -- B. General Landscape Features -- C. Crystal Structures and Melting Transitions -- D. Polymer Melts and Glasses -- E. Polymer Solutions -- XI. Protein Folding Phenomena -- A. Protein Chemical Structure-An Overview -- B. Solvent Properties and Effects -- C. Interaction Approximations -- D. Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary Structures -- E. Native Versus Denatured States -- F. Rudimentary Models -- References -- Index.
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