Upper bounds on free energies in terms of hard-sphere results

作者：Jayendran C. Rasaiah, George R. Stell · 发表于：Molecular Physics · 年份：1970 · DOI：10.1080/00268977000100261 · 被引用次数：138 · 研究领域：Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics、Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics、Material Dynamics and Properties

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.