2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2002
Phase statistics and the Hamiltonian
I. R. Peterson
Modern statistical thermodynamics retains the concepts employed by Landau of the order parameter and a functional depending on it, now called the Hamiltonian. The present paper inv…
cs.DS2001
The Gibbs Representation of 3D Rotations
Ian R. Peterson
This paper revisits the little-known Gibbs-Rodrigues representation of rotations in a three-dimensional space and demonstrates a set of algorithms for handling it. In this represen…