Statistical MechanicsUnlike most other texts on the subject, this clear, concise introduction to the theory of microscopic bodies treats the modern theory of critical phenomena. Provides up-to-date coverage of recent major advances, including a self-contained description of thermodynamics and the classical kinetic theory of gases, interesting applications such as superfluids and the quantum Hall effect, several current research applications, The last three chapters are devoted to the Landau-Wilson approach to critical phenomena. Many new problems and illustrations have been added to this edition. |
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... bosons and the - sign for fermions . Therefore an improvement over ( 10.55 ) is the formula Tre - BK ༤ 1 N ! h3N SON ... bosons and repulsive for fermions , as illustrated in Fig . 10.3 . In this sense we sometimes speak of the ...
... bosons and the - sign for fermions . Therefore an improvement over ( 10.55 ) is the formula Tre - BK ༤ 1 N ! h3N SON ... bosons and repulsive for fermions , as illustrated in Fig . 10.3 . In this sense we sometimes speak of the ...
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... bosons of mass m , contained in a box of volume V , at very low temperatures . The bosons interact with one another through binary collisions characterized by the scattering length a which is assumed to be positive . The energy levels ...
... bosons of mass m , contained in a box of volume V , at very low temperatures . The bosons interact with one another through binary collisions characterized by the scattering length a which is assumed to be positive . The energy levels ...
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... bosons or all identical spinless fermions . First we define the quantized fields that corresponds to bosons and fermions . The field operators of the two cases are defined by the following commutation rules . Bosons Fermions [ y ( r ) ...
... bosons or all identical spinless fermions . First we define the quantized fields that corresponds to bosons and fermions . The field operators of the two cases are defined by the following commutation rules . Bosons Fermions [ y ( r ) ...
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THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS | 3 |
SOME APPLICATIONS OF THERMODYNAMICS | 33 |
THE PROBLEM OF KINETIC THEORY | 55 |
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