One-dimensional gas of hard needles
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-27 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We study a one dimensional gas of needle-like 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 of the hard-needle gas as a function of its density. The results are then compared to the same quantities obtained analytically from a transfer matrix approach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0902.1899,
title = {One-dimensional gas of hard needles},
author = {Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.1899},
year = {2009}
}
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