Toward a molecular theory of vapor-phase nucleation. V. Self-consistency in the decoupled dimer limit

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1242-1246

  Oh, K J ^a   Zeng, X C ^a   Reiss, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000334984     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474135     Document Type: Article

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6. Self-inconsistency in the face of "decoupling" in the manner of papers I, II, and III in the series by Reiss and co-workers (Refs. 1-3) is in part due to the fact that, in those earlier papers, the Jacobian of the transformation to center-of-mass coordinates did not include the "shell molecule" whereas, in the Appendix of paper IV (Ref. 4), the Jacobian did (properly) include the shell molecule.
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8. -N is still negligible in comparison to unity. The basis for this choice of v′ involves kinetic considerations that are not at issue here.
9. F. F. Abraham Homoqueneous Nucleation Theory (Academic, New York, 1974).
10. LBA in the center-of-mass of the cluster. For the former, the center-of-mass centers on the i+1 molecules (including the shell molecule) while for the latter it centers only on the i interior molecules.
11. H. Reiss, W. K. Kegel, and J. L. Katz, Phys. Rev. Lett. (submitted).