Upper bounds on free energies in terms of hard-sphere results
- 1 February 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Physics
- Vol. 18 (2) , 249-260
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268977000100261
Abstract
The Gibbs-Bogoliubov inequality is used to develop a first-order perturbation theory that provides an upper bound on the free energy. Charged systems as well as a system of Lennard-Jones particles are discussed, and detailed numerical estimates of the bounds are presented.Keywords
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