Statistical mechanics : entropy, order parameters, and complexity / / James P. Sethna.
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| Superior document: | Oxford master series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford master series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics.
Oxford master series in physics ; 14. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 349 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.