One-dimensional gas of hard needles

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Kantor, Yacov; Kardar, Mehran
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Abstract
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 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.
Date issued
2009-04
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51765
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Journal
Physical Review E
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Kantor, Yacov , and Mehran Kardar. “One-dimensional gas of hard needles.” Physical Review E 79.4 (2009): 041109. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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ISSN
1550-2376
1539-3755
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