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Book Title
Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity
Publication Date
2021-01-26
Edition Number
2
ISBN
9780198865247
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198865244
ISBN-13
9780198865247
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050024971

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity
Subject
Physics / Condensed Matter, Applied, Physics / Mathematical & Computational, Physics / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics, Science
Author
James P. Sethna
Series
Oxford Master Series in Physics Ser.
Format
Hardcover

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10 in
Item Weight
42.5 Oz
Item Length
1.1 in
Item Width
7.6 in

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Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-947122
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Review from previous edition Since the book treats intersections of mathematics, biology, engineering, computer science and social sciences, it will be of great help to researchers in these fields in making statistical mechanics useful and comprehensible. At the same time, the book will enrich the subject for physicists who'd like to apply their skills in other disciplines. [...] The author's style, although quite concentrated, is simple to understand, andhas many lovely visual examples to accompany formal ideas and concepts, which makes the exposition live and intuitvely appealing.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
530.13
Table Of Content
PrefaceContentsList of figuresWhat is statistical mechanics?1.1. Quantum dice and coins1.2. Probability distributions1.3. Waiting time paradox1.4. Stirling's formula1.5. Stirling and asymptotic series1.6. Random matrix theory1.7. Six degrees of separation1.8. Satisfactory map colorings1.9. First to fail: Weibull1.10. Emergence1.11. Emergent vs. fundamental1.12. Self-propelled particles1.13. The birthday problem1.14. Width of the height distribution1.15. Fisher information and Cram´erRao1.16. Distances in probability spaceRandom walks and emergent properties2.1. Random walk examples: universality and scale invariance2.2. The diffusion equation2.3. Currents and external forces2.4. Solving the diffusion equationTemperature and equilibrium3.1. The microcanonical ensemble3.2. The microcanonical ideal gas3.3. What is temperature?3.4. Pressure and chemical potential3.5. Entropy, the ideal gas, and phase-space refinementsPhase-space dynamics and ergodicity4.1. Liouville's theorem4.2. ErgodicityEntropy5.1. Entropy as irreversibility: engines and the heat death of the Universe5.2. Entropy as disorder5.3. Entropy as ignorance: information and memoryFree energies6.1. The canonical ensemble6.2. Uncoupled systems and canonical ensembles6.3. Grand canonical ensemble6.4. What is thermodynamics?6.5. Mechanics: friction and fluctuations6.6. Chemical equilibrium and reaction rates6.7. Free energy density for the ideal gasQuantum statistical mechanics7.1. Mixed states and density matrices7.2. Quantum harmonic oscillator7.3. Bose and Fermi statistics7.4. Non-interacting bosons and fermions7.5. MaxwellBoltzmann 'quantum' statistics7.6. Black-body radiation and Bose condensation7.7. Metals and the Fermi gasCalculation and computation8.1. The Ising model8.2. Markov chains8.3. What is a phase? Perturbation theoryOrder parameters, broken symmetry, and topology9.1. Identify the broken symmetry9.2. Define the order parameter9.3. Examine the elementary excitations9.4. Classify the topological defectsCorrelations, response, and dissipation10.1. Correlation functions: motivation10.2. Experimental probes of correlations10.3. Equal-time correlations in the ideal gas10.4. Onsager's regression hypothesis and time correlations10.5. Susceptibility and linear response10.6. Dissipation and the imaginary part10.7. Static susceptibility10.8. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem10.9. Causality and KramersKr¨onigAbrupt phase transitions11.1. Stable and metastable phases11.2. Maxwell construction11.3. Nucleation: critical droplet theory11.4. Morphology of abrupt transitionsContinuous phase transitions12.1. Universality12.2. Scale invariance12.3. Examples of critical pointsA Appendix: Fourier methodsA.1. Fourier conventionsA.2. Derivatives, convolutions, and correlationsA.3. Fourier methods and function spaceA.4. Fourier and translational symmetryReferencesIndex
Synopsis
A new and updated edition of the successful Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity from 2006. Statistical mechanics is a core topic in modern physics. Innovative, fresh introduction to the broad range of topics of statistical mechanics today, by brilliant teacher and renowned researcher., Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems. Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and engineering -- avoiding extensive use of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and molecular physics. Statistical mechanics explains how bacteria search for food, and how DNA replication is proof-read in biology; optimizes data compression, and explains transitions in complexity in computer science; explains the onset of chaos, and launched random matrix theory in mathematics; addresses extreme events in engineering; and models pandemics and language usage in the social sciences. Sethna's exercises introduce physicists to these triumphs and a hundred others -- broadening the horizons of scholars both practicing and nascent. Flipped classrooms and remote learning can now rely on 33 pre-class exercises that test reading comprehension (Emergent vs. fundamental; Weirdness in high dimensions; Aging, entropy and DNA), and 70 in-class activities that illuminate and broaden knowledge (Card shuffling; Human correlations; Crackling noises). Science is awash in information, providing ready access to definitions, explanations, and pedagogy. Sethna's text focuses on the tools we use to create new laws, and on the fascinating simple behavior in complex systems that statistical mechanics explains.
LC Classification Number
QC174.8

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