UID:
edocfu_9959238123002883
Format:
1 online resource (372 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-34137-1
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0-19-156621-7
Series Statement:
Oxford master series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics 14
Content:
Sethna's book distills the core ideas of statistical mechanics to make room for new advances important to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and early graduate students, Sethna's text explores everything from chaos through information theory to life at the end of the universe. - ;In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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What is statistical mechanics? -- Random walks with emergent properties. -- Temperature and equilibrium. -- Phase-space dynamics and ergodicity. -- Entropy. -- Free energies. -- Quantum statistical mechanics. -- Calculation and computation. -- Order parameters, broken symmetry, and topology. -- Correlations, response, and dissipation. -- Abrupt phase transitions. -- Continuous phase transitions. -- Appendix: Fourier methods.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-856676-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-856677-8
Language:
English
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