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Article
Understanding temperature and chemical potential using computer simulations
Physics Department Faculty Publication Series
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
Several Monte Carlo algorithms and applications that are useful for understanding the concepts of temperature and chemical potential are discussed. We then introduce a generalization of the demon algorithm that measures the chemical potential and is suitable for simulating
Disciplines
Comments
This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v73/i8/p708_s1
Pages
708-
Citation Information
J Tobochnik, H Gould and Jonathan Machta. "Understanding temperature and chemical potential using computer simulations" Vol. 73 Iss. 8 (2005) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joonathan_machta/1/