8.334 Statistical Mechanics II, Spring 2003
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Author(s)
Levitov, Leonid
Alternative Title
Statistical Mechanics II
Date Issued
June 2003
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
Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory
The renormalization approach to collective phenomena
Dynamic critical behavior
Random systems
Statistical mechanics
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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