By means of the second derivative of the ground-state energy for a finite-size system method, the quantum phase transitions (QPTs) for the frustrated vertically asymmetric diamond chain (VADC) are investigated. Our results display the plentiful frustration induced quantum phases in the model....

A simple expression for the first coordination shell of the radial distribution function of the reference hard-sphere fluid is used in combination with Barker–Henderson perturbation theory to obtain the thermodynamic properties of triangular-well fluids. These properties are expressed...

Within the framework of the effective-field theory with correlations, the ferromagnetism of spin-32 Ising model with a transverse crystal field on honeycomb and square and simple cubic lattices is studied. Tricritical phenomena have been observed for the square and simple cubic lattices, but...

We extend the kinetic theory of dilute polyatomic gas mixtures to the case where the particles have various internal energy modes. The present theory is valid when the inernal energy modes are mechanically independent and when the various degrees of freedom of the molecules are at zeroth order...

A methodology was developed to analyze relation-based systems evolving in time by using the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics. The behavior of such systems can be tracked from the scattering matrix which is actually a network of directed vectors (or pathways) connecting subsequent values,...

A theoretical study of a mixed spin Ising system consisting of spin-1/2 and spin-1 with a random field is studied by the use of the finite cluster approximation within the framework of a single-site cluster theory. In this approach, the phase diagrams and magnetizations are investigated for the...

The specific heat and temperature dependence of magnetizations in transverse Ising thin films are investigated by the use of the standard mean-field theory and the effective-field theory with correlations. The exchange interaction and transverse field at the surfaces take values different from...

An established unified theory of the liquid–glass transition in one-component liquids is extended to multi-component liquids. The universal features such as the Kauzmann paradox, the Vogel–Tamman–Fulcher (VTF) law on the relaxation times and the transport coefficients, the jump of the...

Taking into account the random scatterings due to random eigenfrequencies and random hopping matrices, we obtain the correlation functions for phonon and sound density fluctuations, which yield three and one entropy fluctuation modes at high frequencies, and three and one thermal conductivity at...

In this paper we calculate the constant pressure specific heat response of a water model with a liquid–liquid critical point. We show how, due to the existence of the critical point, there is a secondary maximum in the specific heat at some temperature T*Th for any pressure PPc, being Th the...