Statistical mechanics : entropy, order parameters, and complexity /

In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics--a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are...

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Autor principal: Sethna, James P.
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Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
Colección:Oxford master series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics
Oxford master series in physics ; 14
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505 0 # |a What is statistical mechanics? -- Random walks with emergent properties. -- Temperature and equilibrium. -- Phase-space dynamics and ergodicity. -- Entropy. -- Free energies. -- Quantum statistical mechanics. -- Calculation and computation. -- Order parameters, broken symmetry, and topology. -- Correlations, response, and dissipation. -- Abrupt phase transitions. -- Continuous phase transitions. -- Appendix: Fourier methods. 
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