Of the three basic states of matter, liquid is perhaps the most complex. While its flow properties are described by fluid mechanics, its thermodynamic properties are often neglected, and for many years it was widely believed that a general theory of liquid thermodynamics was unattainable. In recent decades that view has been challenged, as new advances have finally enabled us to understand and describe the thermodynamic properties of liquids. This book explains the recent developments in theory, experiment and modelling that have enabled us to understand the behaviour of excitations in liquids and the impact of this behaviour on heat capacity and other basic properties. Presented in plain language with a focus on real liquids and their experimental properties, this book is a useful reference text for researchers and graduate students in condensed matter physics and chemistry as well as for advanced courses covering the theory of liquids.
Author(s): Kostya Trachenko
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 300
City: Cambridge
Tags: Physics; Theoretical Physics; Liquids Theory; Thermodynamics
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.
