8.334 Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields, Spring 2004

Kardar, Mehran

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Kardar, Mehran

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Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields

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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.

Date issued

2004-06

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45586

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

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8.334-Spring2004

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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

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