One-dimensional gas of hard needles

We study a one-dimensional gas of needlelike objects as a testing ground for a formalism that relates the thermodynamic properties of “hard” potentials to the probabilities for contacts between particles. Specifically, we use Monte Carlo methods to calculate the pressure and elasticity coefficient o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kantor, Yacov, Kardar, Mehran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51765
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912