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"This book introduces a general theory of liquid thermodynamics and explains how recent developments have finally enabled our understanding of most basic liquid properties such as heat capacity and other characteristics. This is a useful reference for researchers and graduate students in condensed matter physics and chemistry"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Experimental heat capacity; 3. Excitations in solids and gases; 4. Energy and heat capacity of solids; 5. First-principles description of liquids: exponential complexity; 6. Liquid energy and heat capacity from interactions and correlation functions; 7. Frenkel theory and Frenkel book; 8. Collective excitations in liquids post-Frenkel; 9. Molecular dynamics simulations; 10. Liquid energy and heat capacity in the liquid theory based on collective excitations; 11. Quantum liquids: excitations and thermodynamic properties; 12. Sui Generis; 13. Connection between phonons and liquid thermodynamics: a historical survey; 14. The supercritical state; 15. Minimal quantum viscosity from fundamental physical constants; 16. Viscous liquids; 17. A short note on theory; 18. Excitations and thermodynamics in other disordered media: spin waves and spin glass systems; 19. Evolution of excitations in strongly-coupled systems; References; Index.
About the author
Kostya Trachenko is Professor at Queen Mary University of London working in condensed matter physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and held a Research Fellowship in Darwin College, Cambridge, and an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship. His work was awarded the CCP5 Prize and was one of the top ten Physics World Breakthroughs in 2020.
Summary
This book introduces a general theory of liquid thermodynamics and explains how recent developments have finally enabled our understanding of most basic liquid properties such as heat capacity and other characteristics. This is a useful reference for researchers and graduate students in condensed matter physics and chemistry.
