Statistical mechanics: entropy, order parameters, and complexity
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Main Author: Sethna, James P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
Series:Oxford master series in statistical, computational, and theoretical physics
Oxford master series in physics 14
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-321) and index
What is statistical mechanics? -- Random walks with emergent properties. -- Temperature and equilibrium. -- Phase-space dynamics and ergodicity. -- Entropy. -- Free energies. -- Quantum statistical mechanics. -- Calculation and computation. -- Order parameters, broken symmetry, and topology. -- Correlations, response, and dissipation. -- Abrupt phase transitions. -- Continuous phase transitions. -- Appendix: Fourier methods
Sethna distills the core ideas of statistical mechanics to make room for new advances important to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. He explores everything from chaos through to life at the end of the universe
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 349 p.)
ISBN:0191566217
9780191566219
9780198566762
9780198566779

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