
QD171.M28 1990 546'.3-dc20 89-33208 CIP ISBN-13 978-9-1 hardback ISBN-10 9-X hardback ISBN-13 978-1-3 paperback ISBN-10 0-521 -01961 -3 paperbackĬontents Preface xi 1 Outline 1 2 Pair correlation function and structure factor of ions 3 2.1 Liquid structure factor 3 2.2 Ornstein-Zernike direct correlation function 5 3 Thermodynamics 8 3.1 Simple monatomic fluids 8 3.2 Approximate methods 11 3.3 Simple liquid metals 15 3.4 Specifics 18 3.5 One-componen t plasma as reference liquid 25 4 Electron screening and effective ion-ion interactions 26 4.1 Screening of impurity centre in electron liquid 26 4.2 Lindhard dielectric function 28 4.3 Introduction of exchange and correlation 29 4.4 Effective ion-ion interactions in simple (s-p) metals 31 4.5 Structure factor of alkali metals modelled in terms of one-component plasma 32 5 Interionic forces and structural theories 35 5.1 Force equation 35 5.2 Simple structural theories 37 5.3 Refined structural theories: factorization of triplet correlations 38 5.4 Inversion of structure factor to yield effective interionic pair potentials 39 6 Statistical mechanics of inhomogeneous systems and freezing theory 43 6.1 Single-particle density related to direct correlation function 43 (Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics) ISBN 9-X 1. First published 1990 This digitally printed first paperback version 2005 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data March, Norman H. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne SydneyĬAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © Cambridge University Press 1990 This publication is in copyright. The University has printed and published continuously since 1584. MARCH Coulson Professor Theoretical Chemistry Department, University of Oxford Y~ i.i.J- % ♦ 1 1 w i i i 1 i i * 4 r r/if right of the University of Cambridge to prim ond sell oil monner of books wos granted by Henry VIII in 1534. Weinberg LIQUID METALS Concepts and Theory CAMBRIDGE MONOGRAPHS ON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS General editors: P.
