TY - BOOK AU - Sethna,James P. TI - Statistical Mechanics: entropy, order parameters, and complexity SN - 9780198566779 U1 - 530.13 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Statistical mechanics N1 - 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 ER -