8.334 Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields, Spring 2004
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Author(s)
Kardar, Mehran
Alternative Title
Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields
Date Issued
June 2004
Abstract
A two-semester course on statistical mechanics. Basic principles are examined in 8.333: the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas. Quantum statistical mechanics; Fermi and Bose systems. Interacting systems: cluster expansions, van der Waal's gas, and mean-field theory. Topics from modern statistical mechanics are explored in 8.334: the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories. Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory. The renormalization approach to collective phenomena. Dynamic critical behavior. Random systems.
Subjects
the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories
The renormalization approach to collective phenomena
Dynamic critical behavior
Random systems
Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory
Statistical mechanics
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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