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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2006.
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| Colección: | Oxford master series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics
Oxford master series in physics ; 14 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Tapa Indice Información biográfica |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
