Methods of Statistical Physics
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 14 March 2002
- ISBN 9780521589581
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 244x170x17 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 48 b/w illus. 11 tables 0
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Short description:
A graduate-level textbook on thermal physics covering classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and its applications.
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This graduate-level textbook on thermal physics covers classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and its applications. It describes theoretical methods to calculate thermodynamic properties, such as the equation of state, specific heat, Helmholtz free energy, magnetic susceptibility and phase transitions of macroscopic systems. In addition to the more standard material covered, this book also describes powerful techniques, which are not found elsewhere, to determine the correlation effects on which the thermodynamic properties are based. Particular emphasis is given to the cluster variation method and a novel formulation is developed for its expression in terms of correlation functions. Although a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics is required, the mathematical formulations are accessible and entirely self-contained. The book will therefore constitute an ideal companion text for graduate students studying courses on the theory of complex analysis, classical mechanics, classical electrodynamics, and quantum mechanics.
'Each chapter in the book ends with challenging exercises for the student. The mathematics are set out clearly with a type that is clear, in a font that is easily read.' Contemporary Physics
Table of Contents:
1. Laws of thermodynamics; 2. Thermodynamic relations; 3. The ensemble theory; 4. System Hamiltonians; 5. The density matrix; 6. The cluster variation method; 7. Infinite series representations of correlation functions; 8. The extended mean-field approximation; 9. The exact Ising lattice identities; 10. Propagation of short range order; 11. Phase transition of the two-dimensional Ising model; Appendix 1. The gamma function; Appendix 2. The critical exponent in the tetrahedron approximation; Appendix 3. Programming organization of the cluster variation method; Appendix 4. A unitary transformation applied to the Hubbard Hamiltonian; Appendix 5. Exact Ising identities on the diamond lattice; References; Subject index.
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