2011/11/12 by Rasmus A. X. Persson, Persson, Rasmus A. X.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1111.2930
5 double-spaced pages (including title page), no figures
arxiv created 2011/11/12 · openalex publication_date 2011/11/12 · arxiv updated 2011/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The physical cluster originally conceived by Hill (J. Chem. Phys, 23, 617) is generalized for the case N > 2 in a novel way. Contrary to Hill's pairwise generalization, this definition assures that all constituent molecules of the cluster have insufficient kinetic energy to escape, and avoids the spurious implication of Hill's generalization that the molecular velocities are to be increasingly equal.