The thermodynamics of electrolyte solutions has been investigated by many scientists throughout the last century. While several theories have been presented, the most popular models for the electrostatic interactions are based on the Debye− Hückel and mean spherical approximation (MSA) theories. In this paper we investigate the differences between the Debye− Hückel and the MSA theories, and com...

Phonon exchange is the usual cause of decoherence in atom-surface scattering. By including quantum effects in the treatment of Debye-Waller scattering, we show that phonon exchange becomes ineffective when the relevant phonon frequencies are high. The result explains the surprising observation of strong elastic scattering of Ne from a Cu(100) surface nanotextured with a c(2 × 2) Li adsorbate st...

Coulomb corrections to the equation of state of degenerate matter are usually described by Debye-Hückel theory; however, recent studies have considered modifications of thermodynamic quantities which are caused by the interactions of charged particles beyond the Debye-Hückel approximation. Based on the weakly-coupled plasma limit, the formulae for the physical properties of non-ideal effects on...

The low-frequency vibrational and low-temperature thermal properties of amorphous solids are markedly different from those of crystalline solids. This situation is counterintuitive because all solid materials are expected to behave as a homogeneous elastic body in the continuum limit, in which vibrational modes are phonons that follow the Debye law. A number of phenomenological explanations for...