Statistical mechanics
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
1996.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Historical introduction; The statistical basis of thermodynamics; Elements of the ensemble theory; The canonical ensemble; The grand canonical ensemble; Formulation of quantum statistics; The theory of simple gases; Ideal Bose systems; Ideal Fermi systems; Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: The method of cluster explansions, the method of quantized fields; Phase transitions: critically, universality and scaling, exact (or almost exact) results for the various models, the renormalization group approach; Fluctuations.