Statistical mechanics in collective coordinates

DOI10.1023/A:1022191214859zbMATH Open1014.82027arXivcond-mat/0204178OpenAlexW1604733941MaRDI QIDQ1871908FDOQ1871908

Moshe Schwartz, S. F. Edwards

Publication date: 4 May 2003

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the transformation of the statistical mechanics of N particles to the statistical mechanics of fields, that are the collective coordinates, describing the system. We give an explicit expression for the functional Fourier transform of the Jacobian of the transformation from particle to collective coordinate and derive the Fokker-Planck equation in terms of the collective coordinates. Simple approximations, leading to Debye-Huckel theory and to the hard sphere Percus-Yevick equation are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204178

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationstatistical mechanicsJacobiancollective coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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