List of new material and changes: Summary of
Chapter 5
new section: rate constants with microcanonical temperature
new section: Larger fragments
new section: quantum statistics effect in electron emission
New section: Kinetic energy release split into two sections
Chapter 6
New chapter: Radiation, one section from previous chapter 5,
one new section on infrared radiation.
Chapter 7
New section: Kinetic energy release in the evaporative ensemble
New section: Radiative cooling in the evaporative ensemble
Chapter 8
The chapter on abundances will be expanded to include a better treatment of nu- cleation, including different kernels for the Smoluchowski equation, the gelation transition, and exact and asymptotic solutions. Material on nucleation theorem will be add
Chapter 9
New section split off, plus some new material in section: Thermostats in MD simulations
Chapter 10
New section: Magnetism
New chapter 11
Hot electron reactions
Chapter 13
New section Solid-to-solid phase transition
The changes relative to the first edition are of two types. One is expansion of the scope of the material covered. The expansions of chapters 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 belong to that category.
The other type is the introduction of new developments in the matter. This is the main motivation for the additions to chapters 5, 7, 11.
There have been numerous minor changes, also in the chapters not listed above. Numerical summary 2nd (1st) editions
Tables 8 (5)
Figures 102 (80)
Exercises 125 (74)
Equations 1276 (922)
About the Author: Klavs Hansen is Professor of Physics at Tianjin University. Educated at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, he has held positions in the Denmark, USA, Germany, Finland, and Sweden. His expertise is in statistical and quantum processes in free clusters and large molecules, studied at ion traps and storage rings with multiphoton ionization and fragmentation experiments. He is currently also senior visiting professor at KU Leuven.
