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A molecular dynamics simulation of dimer formation in an adiabatic, hardcore, square-well, dilute two-dimensional gas yields a non-Poissonian dimer number distribution. Its ratio of variance to mean deviates from unity in a manner recently predicted theoretically.
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Zurek, W.H., Schieve, W.C. Deviations from the Poisson behavior of equilibrium fluctuations in a closed system. J Stat Phys 22, 289–296 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01014645
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