Statistical Mechanics

• Main Author: Schwabl, Franz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Advanced Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Thermodynamics.; Condensed matter.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

The completely revised new edition of the classical book on Statistical Mechanics covers the basic concepts of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics. In addition to a deductive approach to equilibrium statistics and thermodynamics based on a single hypothesis - the form of the microcan...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Principles
• Equilibrium Ensembles
• Thermodynamics
• Ideal Quantum Gases
• Real Gases, Liquids, and Solutions
• Magnetism
• Phase Transitions, Scale Invariance, Renormalization Group Theory, and Percolation
• Brownian Motion, Equations of Motion, and the Fokker-Planck Equations
• The Boltzmann Equation
• Irreversibility and the Approach to Equilibrium.