A new grand canonical ensemble method to calculate first-order phase transitions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Tang, Yiping ^a  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DENSITY FLUCTUATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; FREE ENERGY DENSITY; GRAND CANONICAL; GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLE; HOMOGENEOUS FLUIDS; LINEAR SEGMENTS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; PURE FLUIDS; SUBVOLUMES; VAN DER WAALS;

FREE ENERGY; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 79959477240     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3599048     Document Type: Article

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