Statistical physics

Nonadiabatic transition is a highly multidisciplinary concept and phenomenon, constituting a fundamental mechanism of state and phase changes in various dynamical processes of physics, chemistry and biology, such as molecular dynamics, energy relaxation, chemical reaction, and electron and proton transfer.

This eighteenth volume in the Poincare Seminar Series provides a thorough description of Information Theory and some of its most active areas, in particular, its relation to thermodynamics at the nanoscale and the Maxwell Demon, and the emergence of quantum computation and of its counterpart, quantum verification.

Statistical Physics (SP) has followed an unusual evolutionary path in science.

An exploration of important theories for understanding freezing and the liquid-glass transition for graduate students and researchers.

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

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

"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.

This book is a systematic introduction to a new and exciting field of patterns in granular matter.

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics.

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.

This book deals with an important class of many-body systems: those where the interaction potential decays slowly for large inter-particle distances; in particular, systems where the decay is slower than the inverse inter-particle distance raised to the dimension of the embedding space.

This volume is the third edition of the first-ever elementary book on the Langevin equation method for the solution of problems involving the translational and rotational Brownian motion of particles and spins in a potential highlighting modern applications in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and so on.

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

The first two editions of Concise Chemical Thermodynamics proved to be a very popular introduction to a subject many undergraduate students perceive to be difficult due to the underlying mathematics.

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

This textbook presents the fundamental concepts and theories in thermal physics and elementary statistical mechanics in a very simple, systematic and comprehensive way.

The well-known Casimir effect has a direct analogue in systems near critical or multicritical points.

This coherent collection of theory, algorithms, and illustrative results presents the field of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics in detail.

This book offers an interdisciplinary theoretical approach based on non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics and control theory for mathematically modeling shock-induced out-of-equilibrium processes in condensed matter.

A systematic introduction to string phenomenology, outlining how string theory is connected to the real world of particle physics.

This book presents the experimental development of an information-powered engine inspired by the famous thought experiment, Maxwell's demon, to understand its potential to produce energy for practical purposes.

Textbook on statistical physics for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.

Applies network science to contemporary social policy problems for researchers and policy makers in social network analysis and economic policy.

This book addresses research challenges in the rapidly developing area of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and fluctuation kinetics.

In this book, the authors bring together basic ideas from fracture mechanics and statistical physics, classical theories, simulation and experimental results to make the statistical physics aspects of fracture more accessible.

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

The aim of this advanced textbook is to provide the reader with a comprehensive explanation of the ground state configurations, the spin wave excitations and the equilibrium properties of spin lattices described by the Ising-Heisenberg Hamiltonians in the presence of short (exchange) and long range (dipole) interactions.

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

Advances in Heat Transfer presents review articles on topics of current interest.

Offbeat Physics: Machines, Meditations and Misconceptions is a collection of articles on various topics in classical physics that have intrigued the author and their students throughout the years.

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

Delivers a clear and concise exposition of key topics in statistical physics, accompanied by detailed derivations and practice problems.

The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical phenomena.

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

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

These notes are based on a series of lectures given at the Advanced Research Institute of Discrete Applied Mathematics, Rutgers University.

Recently, there has been a surge of activity to elucidate the behavior of highly charged soft matter and Coulomb fluids in general.

This book is about the Random Field Ising Model (RFIM) - a paradigmatic spin model featuring a frozen disordering field.

Esta dirigido a la comunidad academica y cientifica que se encuentre desarrollando y aportando conocimiento a la ciencia y que, de alguna manera, requiere la aplicacion de fundamentos de estadistica.

A fresh introduction to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the study of matter for undergraduate courses.

This book contains comprehensive descriptions of stochastic processes described by underdamped and overdamped oscillator equations with additive and multiplicative random forcing.

The papers included here deal with the many faces of renormalization group formalism as it is used in different branches of theoretical physics.

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.

A comprehensive overview of recent progress in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, including applications across a range of disciplines.