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... Bose. 6.1. An ideal gas in a quantum-mechanical microcanonical ensemble 6.2. An ideal gas in other quantum-mechanical ensembles 6.3. Statistics of the occupation numbers 6.4. Kinetic considerations 6.5. Gaseous systems composed of ...
... Bose. 6.1. An ideal gas in a quantum-mechanical microcanonical ensemble 6.2. An ideal gas in other quantum-mechanical ensembles 6.3. Statistics of the occupation numbers 6.4. Kinetic considerations 6.5. Gaseous systems composed of ...
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... Bose Systems 7.1. Thermodynamic behavior of an ideal Bose gas 7.2. Thermodynamics of the black-body radiation 7.3. The field of Sound waves 7.4. Inertial density of the sound field 7.5. Elementary excitations in liquid helium II ...
... Bose Systems 7.1. Thermodynamic behavior of an ideal Bose gas 7.2. Thermodynamics of the black-body radiation 7.3. The field of Sound waves 7.4. Inertial density of the sound field 7.5. Elementary excitations in liquid helium II ...
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... Bose gas in arbitrary dimensions 12.6. Other models Problems Notes Phase Transitions: The Renormalization Group Approach 13.1. 13.2. 13.3. 13.4. The conceptual basis of scaling Some simple examples of renormalization A. The Ising model ...
... Bose gas in arbitrary dimensions 12.6. Other models Problems Notes Phase Transitions: The Renormalization Group Approach 13.1. 13.2. 13.3. 13.4. The conceptual basis of scaling Some simple examples of renormalization A. The Ising model ...
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... Bose. In his historic paper of 1924, Bose treated black-body radiation as a gas of photons; however, instead of considering the allocation of the “individual” photons to the various energy states of the system, he fixed his attention on ...
... Bose. In his historic paper of 1924, Bose treated black-body radiation as a gas of photons; however, instead of considering the allocation of the “individual” photons to the various energy states of the system, he fixed his attention on ...
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... Einstein statistics and which Fermi–Dirac remained theoretically unsettled until ... Bose–Einstein statistics while those whose spin is a half-odd integral ... gas of hard spheres have been calculated on the basis of Maxwell's transport ...
... Einstein statistics and which Fermi–Dirac remained theoretically unsettled until ... Bose–Einstein statistics while those whose spin is a half-odd integral ... gas of hard spheres have been calculated on the basis of Maxwell's transport ...
Contents
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Chapter 6 The Theory of Simple Gases | 127 |
Chapter 7 Ideal Bose Systems | 157 |
The Method of Quantized Fields | 262 |
Criticality Universality and Scaling | 305 |
Exact or Almost Exact Results for the Various Models | 366 |
The Renormalization Group Approach | 414 |
Chapter 14 Fluctuations | 452 |
Appendixes | 495 |
Bibliography | 513 |
Index | 523 |
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