Statistical physics

Updated second edition with several new chapters, for graduates and researchers in condensed matter physics and particle and string theory.

A user-friendly introduction for mathematicians to some of the principal stochastic models near the interface of probability and physics.

This book provides an ideal introduction to the use of Feynman path integrals in the fields of quantum mechanics and statistical physics.

This book stresses the role of uncorrelated exchange of properties between macroscopic systems and their surroundings as the only source of dynamic irreversibility.

The sophistication of modern tools used in the study of statistical mechanics and field theory is often an obstacle to the easy understanding of new important current results reported in journals.

This classic graduate lecture note volume on statistical mechanics focuses on Physics, rather than mathematics.

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

This text presents a collection of mathematical exercises with the aim of guiding readers to study topics in statistical physics, equilibrium thermodynamics, information theory, and their various connections.

This book is based on many years of teaching statistical and thermal physics.

Real systems'' units interdepend across multiple layers or contexts: this complexity leads to non-trivial organization and novel emergent phenomena.

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

Hermite's theorem makes it known that there are three levels of mathematical frames in which a simple addition formula is valid.

This book establishes the fundamental connections between the physics of quantum phase transitions and the technological promise of quantum information.

This is the first scientic book devoted to the Pauli exclusion principle, which is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics and is permanently applied in chemistry, physics, and molecular biology.

Thermodynamics and information touch theory every facet of chemistry.

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

A dynamical system is called isochronous if it features in its phase space an open, fully-dimensional region where all its solutions are periodic in all its degrees of freedom with the same, fixed period.

Until recently, the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator method, though powerful and simple, has been considered as a half-heuristic one.

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.

Volume 2 of Novel Superfluids continues the presentation of recent results on superfluids, including novel metallic systems, superfluid liquids, and atomic/molecular gases of bosons and fermions, particularly when trapped in optical lattices.

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.

Once again faithful to its goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates - and now also covers AdS/CFT correspondence.

This book covers the broad subject of equilibrium statistical mechanics along with many advanced and modern topics such as nucleation, spinodal decomposition, inherent structures of liquids and liquid crystals.

This book is devoted to analysis of Monte Carlo methods developed in rarefied gas dynamics.

Statistical Models for Nuclear Decay: From Evaporation to Vaporization describes statistical models that are applied to the decay of atomic nuclei, emphasizing highly excited nuclei usually produced using heavy ion collisions.

This is a book about graph homomorphisms.

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

Culture, in fact, also plays an important role in science which is, per se, a multitude of different cultures.

This Element provides an overview of the ideas, methods and techniques to deal with complex networks datasets.

A modern introduction to quantum field theory for graduates, providing intuitive, physical explanations supported by real-world applications and homework problems.

This book provides a review of the application of quantum field theory to condensed matter systems, introducing important techniques in condensed matter theory.

Generating random networks efficiently and accurately is an important challenge for practical applications, and an interesting question for theoretical study.

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 book expounds three special kinds of matrices that are of physical interest, centering on physical examples.

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schrodinger's cat.

A leading authority sheds light on a variety of interesting topics in which probability theory plays a key role.

Textbook on statistical physics for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.

Translation of an influential book on exactly solvable models of many-body physics for graduate students and researchers in physics.

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

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

A comprehensive introduction to the methods of, and physics describable by, classical field theory.

Unique coverage of Monte Carlo methods for both continuum and lattice systems, explaining particularly analysis of phase transitions.

This third edition expands on the original material.

The Luttinger Model is the only model of many-fermion physics with legitimate claims to be both exactly and completely solvable.

Comprehensive survey of static topological solitons and their dynamical interactions, for graduates and researchers.

This is the first book to cover the theory of noise sensitivity of Boolean functions with particular emphasis on critical percolation.

The principal message of this book is that thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will benefit from replacing the unfortunate, misleading and mysterious term "e;entropy"e; with a more familiar, meaningful and appropriate term such as information, missing information or uncertainty.

This book expands the topic of Monte Carlo simulation for graduate students and researchers in physics.

This new edition of College Physics Essentials provides a streamlined update of a major textbook for algebra-based physics.