Modified Virial Theorem for Total Momentum Fluctuations

1 March 1958

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B

Vol. 109 (5), 1464-1465
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.109.1464

Abstract

A modified form of the virial theorem, which relates the fluctuations in the total linear momentum to a "virial" of the external forces acting on a physical system, is proven both classically and quantum-mechanically.

Keywords

VIRIAL THEOREM
EXTERNAL
QUANTUM
TOTAL MOMENTUM FLUCTUATIONS
THEOREM FOR TOTAL
MODIFIED VIRIAL

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Connection between Pair Density and Pressure for a Bose Gas Consisting of Rigid Spherical Atoms
Physical Review B, 1957
Connection between Pair Density and Pressure for a Bose Gas Consisting of Rigid Spherical Atoms
Physical Review B, 1957

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