From fifty years ago, the birth of modern liquid-state science

Abstract

The story told in this autobiographical perspective begins fifty years ago at the 1967 Gordon Research Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Liquids. It traces developments in liquid-state science from that time, including contributions from the author, and especially in the study of liquid water. It emphasizes the importance of fluctuations, and the challenges of far-from-equilibrium phenomena.

arXiv commentInvited autobiographical piece prepared for the Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry

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• The Entropy Production Fluctuation Theorem and the Nonequilibrium Work Relation for Free Energy Differences
• A Gallavotti-Cohen Type Symmetry in the Large Deviation Functional for Stochastic Dynamics
• Perspective: How good is DFT for water?
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• Sampling rare switching events in biochemical networks
• Instantaneous Liquid Interfaces
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• Understanding Hydrophobic Effects: Insights from Water Density Fluctuations
• The physics of Empty Liquids: from Patchy particles to Water
• Revealing excess protons in the infrared spectrum of liquid water
• Molecular dynamics of open systems: construction of a mean-field particle reservoir
• Photon liquefaction in time