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From Ergodicity to Extended Phase Diagrams
Author(s) -
Woodley Scott M.,
Sokol Alexey A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201109030
Subject(s) - metastability , ergodicity , phase diagram , statistical physics , work (physics) , gibbs free energy , thermodynamics , phase (matter) , physics , mathematics , statistics , quantum mechanics
Structure prediction of stable and metastable phases is put on equal footing for the first time, with a solid thermodynamical background. How to estimate the lifetime of metastable phases is demonstrated by recent groundbreaking work of Jansen, Pentin, and Schön. At the heart lies the exploration of the Gibbs free‐energy landscapes and the extended phase diagrams for complex systems.