STATISTICAL PHYSICS - STATICS, DYNAMICS

The material presented in this invaluable textbook has been tested in two courses. One of these is a graduate-level survey of statistical physics; the other, a rather personal perspective on critical behavior. Thus, this book defines a progression starting at the book-learning part of graduate education and ending in the midst of topics at the research level. To supplement the research-level side the book includes some research papers. Several of these are classics in the field, including a suite of six works on self-organized criticality and complexity, a pair on diffusion-limited aggregation, some papers on correlations near critical points, a few of the basic sources on the development of the real-space renormalization group, and several papers on magnetic behavior in a plain geometry.

List of contents

Fundamentals of statistical physics: the lectures - a survey; one particle and many; Gaussian distributions; quantum mechanics and lattices. Random dynamics: diffusion and hopping; from hops to statistical mechanics; correlations and response. More statistical mechanics: statistical thermodynamics; Fermi, Bose, and other. Phase transitions: overview of phase transitions; mean field theory of critical behaviour; continuous phase transitions; renormalization in one dimension; real space renormalization techniques; duality; planar model and Coulomb systems; XY model, renormalization and duality.

Product details

• Authors: Leo P Kadanoff, Leo P (The Univ Of Chicago Kadanoff, Leo P. Kadanoff, Leo P. (The Univ Of Chicago Kadanoff, Kadanoff Leo P, Leo P Kadanoff
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9789810237646
• ISBN: 978-981-02-3764-6
• No. of pages: 500
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 276 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 1153 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works