Quantum hard spheres

References

UNED GROUP PAPERS ON QUANTUM HARD SPHERES

1. Luis M. Sesé "Computational study of the melting-freezing transition in the quantum hard-sphere system for intermediate densities. I. Thermodynamic results", Journal of Chemical Physics 126 164508 (2007)
2. Luis M. Sesé and Lorna E. Bailey "Computational study of the melting-freezing transition in the quantum hard-sphere system for intermediate densities. II. Structural features", Journal of Chemical Physics 126 164509 (2007)
3. Luis M. Sesé and Lorna E. Bailey "Erratum: “Computational study of the melting-freezing transition in the quantum hard-sphere system for intermediate densities. II. Structural features” [J. Chem. Phys. 126, 164509 (2007)], Journal of Chemical Physics 127 049901 (2007)
4. Luis M. Sesé "Triplet correlations in the quantum hard-sphere fluid", J. Chem. Phys. 123 104507 (2005)
5. Luis M. Sesé "Computation of the equation of state of the quantum hard-sphere fluid utilizing several path-integral strategies", J. J.Chem. Phys. 121 3702 (2004)
6. L. E. Bailey and L. M. Sesé "The decay of pair correlations in quantum hard-sphere fluids", J. Chem. Phys. 121 10076 (2004)
7. L. M. Sesé and L. E. Bailey "A simulation study of the quantum hard-sphere Yukawa fluid", J. Chem. Phys. 119 10256 (2003)
8. L. M. Sesé "The compressibility theorem for quantum simple fluids at equilibrium", Molec. Phys 101 1455 (2003)
9. L. M. Sesé "Properties of the path-integral quantum hard-sphere fluid in k space", J. Chem. Phys. 116 8492 (2002)
10. L. E. Bailey and L. M. Sesé "The asymptotic decay of pair correlations in the path-integral quantum hard-sphere fluid", J. Chem. Phys. 115 6557 (2001)
11. L. M. Sesé "Path-integral Monte Carlo study of the structural and mechanical properties of quantum fcc and bcc hard-sphere solids", J. Chem. Phys. 114 1732 (2001)
12. L. M. Sesé "Thermodynamic ans structural properties of the path-integral quantum hard-sphere fluid", J. Chem. Phys. 108 9086 (1998)
13. L. M. Sesé and R. Ledesma "Computation of the static structure factor of the path-integral quantum hard-sphere fluid", J. Chem. Phys. 106 1134 (1997)
14. L. M. Sesé and R. Ledesma "Path-integral energy and structure of the quantum hard-sphere system using efficient propagators", J.Chem. Phys. 102 3776 (1995)

SOME BASIC QUANTUM HARD-SPHERE REFERENCES

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GENERAL REFERENCES ON PATH-INTEGRALS & APPLICATIONS

a) Reviews

1. R. P. Feynman and A. R. Hibbs, Path-integrals and Quantum Mechanics (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965)
2. R. P. Feynman, Statistical Mechanics (Benjamin, Reading, Mass., 1972)
3. D. Chandler and P. G. Wolynes, J. Chem. Phys. 74, 4078 (1981)
4. B. J. Berne and D. Thirumalai, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 37, 401 (1986)
5. D. M. Ceperley, Rev. Mod. Phys. 67, 229 (1995)

b) Applications (Phase transitions, Quantum Dynamics, Centroids)

1. J. R. Melrose and K. Singer, Molec. Phys. 66, 1203 (1989)
2. J. Cao and G. A. Voth, J. Chem. Phys. 100, 5093 (1994); 104, 273 (1996)
3. R. Ramírez and T. López-Ciudad, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 3339 (1999)
4. C. Chakravarty and R. M. Lynden-Bell, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 9239 (2000)