Berne B.J. (Ed.) Statistical Mechanics Part A: Equilibrium Techniques

Plenum Press, New York, 1977, Pages: 242, ISBN: 0306335050Statistical mechanics brings together under one roof a broad spectrum of mathematical techniques. The aim of these volumes is to provide a didactic treatment of those techniques that are most useful for the study of problems of current interest to theoretical chemists. The emphasis throughout is on the techniques themselves and not on reviewing the enormous literature in statistical mechanics.This volume begins with a chapter on modern cluster methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics and shows how topological reduction can be used to renormalize bonds. A general discussion of renormalization methods is given and the formalism is applied to the study of polar gases, ionic solutions, perturbation theory of fluids, hydrogen-bonded fluids, and integral equations.
This chapter is followed by two chapters on the treatment of fluids with long-range forces. In particular, special techniques are presented for treating Coulomb forces and permanent multipolar forces. These chapters draw on some of the concepts developed in the first chapter.
Much of what is known about the fluid state springs from Monte Carlo studies of model fluids. Chapter 4 is concerned with the application of Monte Carlo techniques to the study of fluids with short-range forces. Chapter 5 extends this method to the study of fluids with long-range forces and introduces
some innovative techniques. The volume closes with a chapter on nucleation theory.Cluster Methods in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Fluids
Fluids with Long-Range Forces: Toward a Simple Analytic Theory
Electrolyte Solutions at Equilibrium
A Guide to Monte Carlo for Statistical Mechanics:
1. Highways
A Guide to Monte Carlo for Mechanics:
2. Byways
Nucleation Theory