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Statistical physics : fundamentals and application to condensed matter : with lectures, problems and solutions / Hung T. Diep.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Singapore : World Scientific, ©2015.Description: xxv, 621 p. : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9789814696258
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 000SB:530 23 D562
Contents:
Fundamentals of Statistical Physics: 1. Basic Concepts and Tools in Statistical Physics; 2. Isolated Systems: Micro-Canonical Description; 3. Systems at a Constant Temperature: Canonical Description; 4. Open Systems at Constant Temperature: Grand-Canonical Description; 5. Free Fermi Gas; 6. Free Boson Gas; 7. Systems of Interacting Particles: Method of Second Quantization; Application to Condensed Matter: 8. Symmetry in Crystalline Solids; 9. Interacting Atoms in Crystals: Phonons; 10. Systems of Interacting Electrons - Fermi Liquids; 11. Electrons in Crystalline Solids: Energy Bands; 12. Systems of Interacting Spins: Magnons; 13. Systems of Interacting Spins: Phase Transitions; 14. Superconductivity; 15. Transport in Metals and Semiconductors; Solutions of Problems: Solutions of Problems of Part 1; Solutions of Problems of Part 2; Appendices: Appendix A: Mathematical Complements and Table of Constants; Appendix B: Sommerfeld's Expansion at Low Temperatures; Appendix C: Origin of the Heisenberg Model; Appendix D: Hubbard Model: Superexchange; Appendix E: Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transition; Appendix F: Low- and High-Temperature Expansions of the Ising Model.
Summary: The aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals of statistical physics and its application to condensed matter.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamentals of Statistical Physics:
1. Basic Concepts and Tools in Statistical Physics;
2. Isolated Systems: Micro-Canonical Description;
3. Systems at a Constant Temperature: Canonical Description; 4. Open Systems at Constant Temperature: Grand-Canonical Description;
5. Free Fermi Gas;
6. Free Boson Gas;
7. Systems of Interacting Particles: Method of Second Quantization;
Application to Condensed Matter:
8. Symmetry in Crystalline Solids;
9. Interacting Atoms in Crystals: Phonons;
10. Systems of Interacting Electrons - Fermi Liquids;
11. Electrons in Crystalline Solids: Energy Bands;
12. Systems of Interacting Spins: Magnons;
13. Systems of Interacting Spins: Phase Transitions;
14. Superconductivity;
15. Transport in Metals and Semiconductors;
Solutions of Problems:
Solutions of Problems of Part 1;
Solutions of Problems of Part 2;
Appendices:
Appendix A: Mathematical Complements and Table of Constants;
Appendix B: Sommerfeld's Expansion at Low Temperatures; Appendix C: Origin of the Heisenberg Model;
Appendix D: Hubbard Model: Superexchange;
Appendix E: Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transition;
Appendix F: Low- and High-Temperature Expansions of the Ising Model.

The aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals of statistical physics and its application to condensed matter.

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