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Statistical Mechanics : entropy, order parameters, and complexity / James P. Sethna.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Oxford master series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics | Oxford master series in physicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.Description: xix, 349 pISBN:
  • 9780198566779
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.13 SET/S
Contents:
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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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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