New Approaches to Problems in Liquid State Theory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Charged and Polar, Liquids, Phase Transitions and Metastability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Understanding Criticality: Simple Fluids and Ionic Fluids

      • M. E. Fisher

      Pages 3-8

   3. Equation of State and Critical Behavior of Simple Fluid Models

      • J. S. Høye

      Pages 9-29

   4. Phase Separation and Critical Phenomena in Simple Fluids and in Binary Mixtures

      • L. Reatto

      Pages 31-46

   5. Critical Behaviour of the Restricted Primitive Model (RPM)

      • D. Levesque

      Pages 47-59

   6. Phase Diagram of Dipolar Hard-Core Molecule Systems

      • D. Levesque

      Pages 61-70

   7. New Results on Some Ionic-Fluid Problems

      • G. Stell

      Pages 71-89

   8. Fluids with Internal Degrees of Freedom

      • F. Lado

      Pages 91-105

   9. Replica and Glasses

      • G. Parisi

      Pages 107-138

   10. Nematic to Smectic: A “Hard” Transition

       • Y. Martínez-Ratón, J. A. Cuesta, R. Van Roij, B. Mulder

       Pages 139-150

3. Interfaces and Confined Fluids

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Fluids in Model Pores or Cavities: The Influence of Confinement on Structure and Phase Behaviour

      • R. Evans

      Pages 153-172

   3. Bulk and Surface Properties of Dipolar Fluids

      • B. Groh, S. Dietrich

      Pages 173-196

   4. Fluids in Contact with Structured Substrates

      • S. Dietrich

      Pages 197-244

   5. Liquid State Methods for Disordered Systems

      • M. L. Rosinberg

      Pages 245-278

   6. Inhomogeneous Fluids in an External Field

      • F. Lado, E. Lomba

      Pages 279-291

   7. Free Energy Density Functional from 0D Cavities

      • P. Tarazona, Y. Rosenfeld

      Pages 293-302

   8. Geometrically Based Free Energy Functional for Confined Hard Spheres and the Density Functional Theory for Simple Classical Systems

      • Y. Rosenfeld

      Pages 303-320

   9. Charge-Stabilized Colloids Confined to a Slit: A Case for Attraction Between Like Charged Particles

      • David Goulding, Jean-Pierre Hansen

      Pages 321-336

The theory of simple and complex fluids has made considerable recent progress, due to the emergence of new concepts and theoretical tools, and also to the availability of a large body of new experimental data on increas­ ingly complex systems, as well as far-reaching methodological developments in numerical simulations. This AS! aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of the most significant theoretical developments, supplemented by a few presentations of cutting-edge simulation and experimental work. The impact of the Institute in the overall landscape of Statistical Mechanics received an important recognition with its inclusion in the list of satellite events of STATPHYS20, the triennal international conference on Statistical Physics held in Paris in July 1998. These Proceedings contain the texts of the 13 Lecture Courses and 9 Invited Seminars delivered at Patti. Two clear trends emerge from these Proceedings: first, the diversity of new and unexpected theoretical results relating to classic models of liq­ uids, which have recently been subjected to fresh scrutiny; and secondly the parallel emergence of new concepts, models and methods, aimed at investigating complex fluids and phenomena, like the phase behaviour of fluids in pores, macromolecular assemblies, and the glass transition. Many of the new tools have their roots in traditional liquid state theory, and, in conjunction with fresh input from related fields, allow it wider applicability.

• Helium-Atom-Streuung
• colloid
• complex fluid
• complex fluids
• simulation
• surface

• Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy

  Carlo Caccamo

• Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK

  Jean-Pierre Hansen

• Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

  George Stell

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