Statistical physics

Choice Recommended Title, February 2020This book explores quantum field theory using the Feynman functional and diagrammatic techniques as foundations to apply Quantum Field Theory to a broad range of topics in physics.

This book provides an accessible yet thorough introduction to thermodynamics, crafted and class-tested over many years of teaching.

This book provides an accessible yet thorough introduction to thermodynamics, crafted and class-tested over many years of teaching.

Modern thermodynamics is a unique but still not a logically self-consistent field of knowledge.

Modern thermodynamics is a unique but still not a logically self-consistent field of knowledge.

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

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

A focused and accessible guide to the Ising model, a mathematical framework used to describe ferromagnetism, with exercises included.

This book provides a guide to the analysis of complex systems through the lens of data science.

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

This is a presentation of the main ideas and methods of modern nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.

This monograph, suitable for use as an advanced text, presents the statistical mechanics of solids from the perspective of the material properties of the solid state.

Thermal physics deals with collections of large numbers of particles - typically 10 to the 23rd power or so.

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This book provides a critical update of the most recent and innovative developments of avalanche science.

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems.

Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students, When Things Grow Many is an accessible and engaging textbook introducing the theory of statistical mechanics, as well as its fascinating real-world applications.

This text presents the two complementary aspects of thermal physics as an integrated theory of the properties of matter.

Flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of locusts display amazing forms of collective motion, while huge numbers of glow worms can emit light signals with almost unbelievable synchronization.

Flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of locusts display amazing forms of collective motion, while huge numbers of glow worms can emit light signals with almost unbelievable synchronization.

Recent groundbreaking discoveries in physics, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson and gravitational waves, have relied on chi-squared analysis and model testing, a data analysis method.

This volume, 106 of the Les Houches Summer School series, brings together applications of integrability to supersymmetric gauge and string theory.

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

One of the pillars of modern science, statistical mechanics, owes much to one man, the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906).

Statistical physics and thermodynamics describe the behaviour of systems on the macroscopic scale.

The science of networks represented a substantial change in the way we see natural and technological phenomena.

The study of networks, including computer networks, social networks, and biological networks, has attracted enormous interest in the last few years.

The field of stochastic processes and Random Matrix Theory (RMT) has been a rapidly evolving subject during the last fifteen years.

This book presents an up-to-date formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions covering different applications ranging from solid state physics, plasma physics, cold atoms in optical lattices up to relativistic transport and heavy ion collisions.

This book provides an introduction to the methods of coupled quantum statistical field theory and Green's functions.

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting devices.

An understanding of the behaviour of financial assets and the evolution of economies has never been as important as today.

This book reports on the latest developments in the field of Superfluidity.

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

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

Quantum phase transitions describe the violent rearrangement of electrons or atoms as they evolve from well defined excitations in one phase to a completely different set of excitations in another.

Brownian diffusion is the motion of one or more solute molecules in a sea of very many, much smaller solvent molecules.

Brownian diffusion is the motion of one or more solute molecules in a sea of very many, much smaller solvent molecules.

`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.

`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 book gathers the lecture notes of courses given at the 2010 summer school in theoretical physics in Les Houches, France, Session XCIV.

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible applications of statistical physics tools.

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible applications of statistical physics tools.

This book provides the reader with an elementary introduction to chaos and fractals, suitable for students with a background in elementary algebra, without assuming prior coursework in calculus or physics.

The book provides a unifying insight into fluctuation phenomena in a broad variety of vibrational systems of current interest.

The book provides a unifying insight into fluctuation phenomena in a broad variety of vibrational systems of current interest.

This book presents the SPH method (Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics) for fluid modelling from a theoretical and applied viewpoint.

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

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

This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences.