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866121
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Hansen, Klavs
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Statistical physics of nanoparticles in the gas phase /\ Klavs Hansen.
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Second edition.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer,, 2018.
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Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics ;; volume 73
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1 online resource
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3319900617
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: 3319900625
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: 3319900633
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: 9783319900612
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: 9783319900629
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: 9783319900636
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9783319900612
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Abstract
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This book examines the fundamental properties of nanosystems in the gas phase. Detailed derivations of results illustrate the applicability and limitations of approximations and demonstrate the power of the methods.
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Gas dynamics.
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Nanoparticles.
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Statistical physics.
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Atomic molecular physics.
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Gas dynamics.
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Nanoparticles.
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Nanotechnology.
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Nuclear physics.
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SCIENCE-- Energy.
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SCIENCE-- Mechanics-- General.
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SCIENCE-- Physics-- General.
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Statistical physics.
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Statistical physics.
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Thermodynamics heat.
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| Dewey Classification
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530.13
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| LC Classification
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QC174.8
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