The dielectric properties of a crystal made of several interpenetrating lattices of ions and reorientable permanent point dipoles are investigated. The ions and dipoles are both assumed to be polarizable. A set of functions ni is introduced to describe the orientational disordering of the...

A property of bath-system correlation functions, assumed in the recent theory of open systems of Lugiato, is explicitly demonstrated.

The eigenfunctions of the diffusion operator of the multivariate master equation, describing reaction diffusion systems, are calculated for various boundary conditions. This serves as a starting point for a systematic study of the general solution of the master equation. As a first application a...

Measurements are reported and some theoretical expressions are given for half-open photon time-interval statistics of laser light scattered by particles in brownian motion. Expressions in terms of cumulants are shown not to be valid in general.

We obtain the general solution of the linear Navier-Stokes equation for time dependent compressible viscous flow about a spherically symmetric polymer molecule. The solution is presented in a covariant form valid in a general cartesian coordinate frame. In the course of deriving the solution we...

We calculate from first principles the equation of state of a simple type of membrane: a monolayer consisting of lipid chain molecules with short-range repulsive and long-range attractive forces. An approximate solution to the packing problem of the hydrocarbon chains is obtained by using a...

The conservation laws of particle number, momentum and energy are derived from relativistic kinetic theory. The first law of relativistic thermodynamics is formulated.

The theory of propagation of light through a medium of molecules with induced multipole moments of arbitrary order is studied. Positional and orientational correlations between molecules are neglected. A central result is the generalization of Lorentz's expression for the average local field...

The theorems derived in a previous article are employed to calculate the force density induced on a sphere moving in an incompressible fluid in nonstationary flow with mixed stick-slip boundary conditions. As applications we derive expressions of the Faxén type for the total force, the total...

We consider a dense system of neutral atoms. When the atoms are represented by isotropic oscillators (Drude-Lorentz model) interacting with nonretarded dipole-dipole forces, the binding energy of the system is given exactly by a well-known expression which is written as a sum of two-bond,...