Statistical Physics Including Applications to Condensed Matter /

• Main Author: Hermann, Claudine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Subjects: Physics.; Mechanics.; Condensed matter.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Condensed Matter Physics.

Statistical Physics bridges the properties of a macroscopic system and the microscopic behavior of its constituting particles, otherwise impossible due to the giant magnitude of Avogadro's number. Numerous systems of today's key technologies -- as e.g. semiconductors or lasers -- are macro...

Table of Contents:

• Statistical Description of Large Systems. Postulates of Statistical Physics
• The Different Statistical Ensembles. General Methods in Statistical Physics
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics in Equilibrium
• The Ideal Gas
• Indistinguishability, the Pauli Principle (Quantum Mechanics)
• General Properties of the Quantum Statistics
• Free Fermions Properties
• Elements of Bands Theory and Crystal Conductivity
• Bosons : Helium 4, Photons, Thermal Radiation.