Statistical physics

This textbook serves to teach readers about the origins of life, the probabilistic process of self-assembly underpinning all living systems, from a biophysics perspective.

This book offers an introduction to statistical mechanics, special relativity, and quantum physics.

Random walks often provide the underlying mesoscopic mechanism for transport phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology.

This second edition of Dynamics, Information and Complexity in Quantum Systems widens its scope by focussing more on the dynamics of quantum correlations and information in microscopic and mesoscopic systems, and their use for metrological and machine learning purposes.

This book highlights a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental statistical mechanics underneath the inner workings of neural networks.

This textbook offers an introduction to statistical mechanics, special relativity, and quantum physics, developed from lecture notes for the "e;Quantum Physics"e; course at the University of Padua.

This book aims to describe in simple terms the new area of statistical mechanics known as spin-glasses, encompassing systems in which quenched disorder is the dominant factor.

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

Despite the significant progress in the study of point defects in metals, some important problems still do not have unambiguous solutions.

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.

This invaluable book provides a broad introduction to a rapidly growing area of nonequilibrium statistical physics.

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

This monograph is devoted to the nonperturbative dynamics in the Standard Model (SM), the basic theory of allfundamental interactions in nature except gravity.

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

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is a successful framework providing criteria for thermalization in isolated quantum systems.

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.

Markov processes represent a universal model for a large variety of real life random evolutions.

The book explores several open questions in the philosophy and the foundations of statistical mechanics.

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.

This book explains the subtleties of quantum statistical mechanics in lower dimensions and their possible ramifications in quantum theory.

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

A small army of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers has joined forces to attack a classic problem, the "e;reversibility paradox"e;, with modern tools.

In this volume, the fractional quantum Hall effect is reviewed and reexamined with emphasis on the fractional statistics.

This book covers the tunnel boring machine (TBM) performance classifications, empirical models, statistical and intelligent-based techniques which have been applied and introduced by the researchers in this field.

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.

To understand phenomena in nature, it is important to focus not only on properties of stationary states, but also their changes in time, that is, the dynamics between bistable states.

In this book we have solved the complicated problem of constructing upper bounds for many-time averages for the case of a fairly broad class of model systems with four-fermion interaction.

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

Every non-fiction book has an objective or mission.

This volume contains more than 80 papers by theorists and experimentalists in the field of multiparticle production.

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.

Authored by a well-known expert in the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics, this book is a coherent presentation of the subject suitable for masters and PhD students, as well as postdocs in physics and related disciplines.

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