Statistical Mechanics

The book is aimed at undergraduate students in their senior year and first year graduate students. It elucidates the basis of thermodynamics and provides a basis for the understanding of, not only the thermodynamic properties of a microscopic system, but also their fluctuations, correlations and close-to-equilibrium properties.Contents: ThermodynamicsFoundations of Statistical MechanicsThe Micro-Canonical EnsembleThe Canonical EnsembleThe Grand-Canonical EnsembleQuantum Statistical MechanicsFermi-Dirac StatisticsBose-Einstein StatisticsPhase TransitionsThe Renormalization GroupNon-Equilibrium Phenomena
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students reading a course in Statistical Mechanics or Statistical Physics.Statistical Mechanics;Thermodynamics;Equilibrium;Ising Model;Quantum Statistics;Density Matrix;Second Quantization;Bose Statistics;Superfluidity Fermi-Dirac Statistics;Phase Transitions;Mean Field Theory Critical Phenomena;Landau-Ginzberg Theory;Non-Equilibrium Phenomena;Linear Response Theory0Key Features:The text provides much of the mathematical details that, otherwise, may hinder students mastering the subjectThe text also includes material on quantum statistics that is frequently overlooked in current texts, but forms an important aspect of current research into quantum systems