Liquid Metals: Concepts and Theory

ISBN-13: 9780521302791 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 508 str.

Norman H. March; P. V. Landshoff; D. R. Nelson

Opis

This comprehensive, research level introduction to the theory of liquid metals presents the concepts needed to understand the properties of these metals starting with a survey of the basic experimental facts. The quantitative theory of liquid pair correlation functions, effective ion-ion interactions, thermodynamic properties and electronic and atomic transport is then developed. The book also explores inelastic neutron scattering from bulk liquid metals, critical behavior, magnetism, the present understanding of the liquid metal surface, binary liquid metals, shock wave studies, liquid hydrogen plasmas and the constitution of red star giants. This is an informative text for advanced postgraduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, theoretical physics, physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Outline; 2. Pair correlation function and structure factors of ions; 3. Thermodynamics; 4. Electron screening and effective ion-ion interactions; 5. Inter-ionic forces and structural theories; 6. Statistical mechanics of inhomogeneous systems and freezing theory; 7. Electronic and atomic transport; 8. Hydrodynamic limits of correlation functions and neutron inelastic scattering; 9. Critical behaviour; 10. Electronic states, including critical region; 11. Magnetism of normal and especially of expanded liquid metals; 12. Liquid-vapour surface; 13. Binary liquid metal alloys; 14. Two-component theory of pure liquid metals; 15. Shock wave studies; 16. Liquid hydrogen plasmas and constitution of Jupiter; Appendices; References; Index.