InhaltsangabeThermodynamics of Ensembles of Classical Particles.- Excitations in Simple Atomic Ensembles.- Structures of Ensembles of Interacting Particles.- Thermodynamics of Dense Gases and Liquids.- Clusters with Short-Range Interaction.- Ensembles of Classical Particles with Repulsion.- Configurational Excitations and Aggregate States of Ensembles of Classical Particles.- Configurational Excitation and Voids in Ensembles of Bound Classical Atoms.- Configurational Cluster Excitation with Pairwise Interactions.- Phase Transitions in Macroscopic Systems of Atoms.- Melting of Clusters and Bulk Atomic Ensembles.- Dynamics of Configurational Excitations in Ensembles of Classical Particles.- Coexistence of Cluster Phases.- Glassy States of an Ensemble of Bound Atoms.- Transport of Voids in Nucleation Processes.- Conclusion and Summary.

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R. Stephen Berry is James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Chemistry Department at The University of Chicago. He has studied phase changes and phase equilibria for twenty years. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., and has been author or coauthor of five books prior to this. He and his coauthor of this book have known each other for over 40 years, from the time both were working on atomic collision processes. They have been collaborating for about 10 years, in their studies of clusters and of phase transitions. Boris M. Smirnov is a distinguished physicist who worked for many years at the Institute for Ball Lightning, prior to his joining the Institute for High Temperatures in Moscow.

Introduction.- Part I. Thermodynamics of ensembles of classical particles.- Excitation in simple atomic ensembles.- Macroscopic ensembles of interacting particles.- Thermodynamics of dense gases and liquids.- Clusters with a short-range interaction between atoms.- Ensembles of classical particles with repulsion.- Part II. Configurational excitations and aggregate states of ensembles of classical particles.- Configurational excitation for an ensemble of interacting atoms.- Configurational excitation in clusters with pairwise atomic interactions.- Phase transitions in macroscopic systems of atoms.- Melting of clusters and bulk atomic ensembles.- Part III. Dynamics of configurational excitations in ensembles of classical particles.- Coexistence of cluster phases.- Glassy states of simple particle ensembles.- Transport of voids in nucleation processes