Statistical physics

Econophysics explores the parallels between physics and economics and is an exciting topic that is attracting increasing attention.

A demonstration of how time series econometrics can be used in economics and finance.

In the first part of this book, classical nonequilibrium statistical mechanics is developed.

Suitable for graduate students, this book develops quantum field theory in curved spacetime in a pedagogical style.

An innovative and modular textbook combining established classical topics in statistical mechanics with the latest developments in condensed matter physics.

This is the second volume in a four-part series on fluid dynamics: Part 1.

The description of emerging collective phenomena and self-organization in systems composed of large numbers of individuals has gained increasing interest from various research communities in biology, ecology, robotics and control theory, as well as sociology and economics.

The self-avoiding walk is a classical model in statistical mechanics, probability theory and mathematical physics.

This book deals with the analysis of the structure of complex networks by combining results from graph theory, physics, and pattern recognition.

The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the Ecole de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009.

A modern introduction to statistics for undergraduates in physics, with worked examples and case studies to illustrate techniques presented.

This is the first book in a four-part series designed to give a comprehensive and coherent description of Fluid Dynamics, starting with chapters on classical theory suitable for an introductory undergraduate lecture course, and then progressing through more advanced material up to the level of modern research in the field.

Overview of systems of frequency distributions, their properties, applications to the fields of water resources and environmental engineering.

Written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this textbook provides a concise introduction to statistical field theory.

Graduate-level book on the analysis of molecular dynamics as applied to equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems.

While the significance of networks in various human behavior and activities has a history as long as human's existence, network awareness is a recent scientific phenomenon.

This book provides an accessible introduction to using the tools of differential geometry to tackle a wide range of topics in physics, with the concepts developed through numerous examples to help the reader become familiar with the techniques.

This book presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarising the last thirty-five years of work in the field.

In the past thirty years, the area of spin glasses has experienced rapid growth, including the development of solvable models for glassy systems.

Recent years have shown important and spectacular convergences between techniques traditionally used in theoretical physics and methods emerging from modern mathematics (combinatorics, probability theory, topology, algebraic geometry, etc).

Learn classical thermodynamics alongside statistical mechanics and how macroscopic and microscopic ideas interweave with this fresh approach to the subjects.

Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance.

An introductory textbook exploring the subject of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, with a relaxed and self-contained setting.

This new expanded second edition has been totally revised and corrected.

A practical guide to understanding, using and producing downscaled climate data, for researchers, graduate students, policy makers and practitioners.

While systems at equilibrium are treated in a unified manner through the partition function formalism, the statistical physics of out-of-equilibrium systems covers a large variety of situations that are often without apparent connection.

Unraveling the mystery of the negative thermal expansion of liquid water has been a challenge for scientists for centuries.

`Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Foundations and Applications' builds from basic principles to advanced techniques, and covers the major phenomena, methods, and results of time-dependent systems.

This Element explores the relations between dynamics and modularity on networks, emphasising the importance of time scale separation and network symmetry.

This book reviews and contrasts contemporary and historical perceptions of time from scientific and intuitive human points of view.

This book offers a comprehensive discussion of developments at the interface of particle physics, supergravity, and cosmology, for graduates and researchers.

An in-depth account on complex connectivity patterns for graduates and researchers in statistical mechanics, mathematical biology and information science.

Density functional theory (DFT) has blossomed in the past few decades into a powerful tool that is used by experimentalists and theoreticians alike.

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This book collects lecture courses and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2010 on "e;Quantum Theory: From Small to Large Scales"e;.

Our original objective in writing this book was to demonstrate how the concept of the equation of motion of a Brownian particle - the Langevin equation or Newtonian-like evolution equation of the random phase space variables describing the motion - first formulated by Langevin in 1908 - so making him inter alia the founder of the subject of stochastic differential equations, may be extended to solve the nonlinear problems arising from the Brownian motion in a potential.

Statistical Mechanics is the study of systems where the number of interacting particles becomes infinite.

In the past thirty years, the area of spin glasses has experienced rapid growth, including the development of solvable models for glassy systems.

Practical numerical methods for solving differential equations are illustrated in the increasingly popular open source language R.

This textbook, first published in 2004, provides an introduction to the major mathematical structures used in physics today.

An advanced introduction to a powerful method for describing quantum phenomena for researchers and graduate students.

Detailed account of computational statistical physics, including theoretical foundations and modern, computational applications.

Overview of systems of frequency distributions, their properties, applications to the fields of water resources and environmental engineering.

This textbook provides everything you need to get through a basic physics course.

Within a unifying framework, Diffusion: Formalism and Applications covers both classical and quantum domains, along with numerous applications.

This book presents a broad collection of models and computational methods - from atomistic to continuum - applied to crystal dislocations.

Computer science and physics have been closely linked since the birth of modern computing.

"e;an impressive text that addresses a glaring gap in the teaching of physical chemistry, being specifically focused on biologically-relevant systems along with a practical focus.

A collection of solved problems corresponding to topics in undergraduate and graduate Quantum Mechanics courses.

This book unifies and consolidates methods for analyzing multilayer networks arising from the social and physical sciences and computing.