Potential Distribution Method in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
- 1 February 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 7 (2) , 228-231
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1711137
Abstract
A general statistical mechanical relationship between the chemical potential and the probability distribution function of the micropotential in a fluid at equilibrium is derived. It is applied to a plasma and a hard‐sphere gas.Keywords
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- Virial Expansion Formulae for the Microfield and Micropotential Distribution Functions and Their Application to a High Temperature PlasmaProgress of Theoretical Physics, 1960