Using relative entropy to find optimal approximations: An application to simple fluids

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 6759-6770

  Tseng, Chih Yuan ^a   Caticha, Ariel ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation method; Hard sphere approximation; Marginalization; Maximum entropy; Simple fluids

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SPHERES;

APPROXIMATION METHODS; CANONICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HARD SPHERE APPROXIMATION; MARGINALIZATION; MAXIMUM RELATIVE ENTROPIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SIMPLE FLUIDS;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS;

EID: 53749100538     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.08.035     Document Type: Article

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