Equilibrium Statistical Physics

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World Scientific, 1994 - Science - 520 pages
This textbook concentrates on modern topics in statistical physics with an emphasis on strongly interacting condensed matter systems. The book is self-contained and is suitable for beginning graduate students in physics and materials science or undergraduates who have taken an introductory course in statistical mechanics. Phase transitions and critical phenomena are discussed in detail including mean field and Landau theories and the renormalization group approach. The theories are applied to a number of interesting systems such as magnets, liquid crystals, polymers, membranes, interacting Bose and Fermi fluids; disordered systems, percolation and spin of equilibrium concepts are also discussed. Computer simulations of condensed matter systems by Monte Carlo-based and molecular dynamics methods are treated.

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Contents

Mean Field and Landau Theory
3
Polymers and Membranes
8
Dense Gases and Liquids
123
Critical Phenomena I
163
29
195
The Renormalization Group
217
40
237
43
263
Phantom membranes
301
44
315
1
336
Linear Response Theory
377
Disordered Systems
417
Occupation Number Representation
481
Bibliography
495
Index
511

Simulations
271

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