Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 160

STUART A. RICE, PhD,received his master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University and was a junior fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957, where he is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. AARON R. DINNER, PhD,received his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Harvard University, after which he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in 2003.

Contributors List ix

Preface to the Series xi

Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory for Associating Molecules 1
Bennett D. Marshall and Walter G. Chapman

Path Integrals and Effective Potentials in the Study of Monatomic Fluids at Equilibrium 49
Luis M. Sesé

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Matter Induced by Degeneracies and Pseudodegeneracies 159
Isaac B. Bersuker

Mean Field Electrostatics Beyond the Point Charge Description 209
Derek Frydel

First‐Passage Processes in Cellular Biology 261
Srividya Iyer‐Biswas and Anton Zilman

Theoretical Modeling of Vibrational Spectra and Proton Tunneling in Hydrogen‐Bonded Systems 307
Marek Janusz Wójcik

Index 343