Equilibrium Statistical PhysicsThis 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. |
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 |
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Equilibrium Statistical Physics: Solutions Manual Michael Plischke,Birger Bergersen Limited preview - 1994 |
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approach assume atoms block spin calculation chain Chapter chemical potential coefficients coexistence configuration Consider correlation function correlation length corresponding coupling constants critical behavior critical exponents critical point critical temperature cubic lattice d³r define derivation dimensionality dimensions discussion distribution function eigenvalues entropy equation equilibrium expansion expectation value expression fermion finite first-order fixed point fluctuations Gaussian given grand potential graph Hamiltonian Heisenberg model Helmholtz free energy ideal gas integral interaction internal energy Ising model Landau theory liquid magnetic field mean field theory method molecules Monte Carlo N₁ nearest-neighbor number of particles obtain order parameter partition function phase transition polymer problem recursion relations renormalization group Section simple cubic simulation sinh specific heat sublattices superfluid surface symmetry thermodynamic limit transfer matrix transformation tricritical point two-dimensional Ising model V₁ variables vectors virial volume Waals zero ӘР