An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646944.001.0001zbMath1284.82001OpenAlexW4230261879MaRDI QIDQ5388554

Robert H. Swendsen

Publication date: 18 April 2012

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646944.001.0001

zbMATH Keywords

entropythermodynamicsphase transitioncanonical ensemblemicrocanonical ensembleLiouville theoremIsing modelBose-Einstein statisticsJacobiansmolecular dynamicssemiconductorsstatistical mechanicsharmonic oscillatorbinomial distributionirreversibilityprobability theorythermodynamic potentialsgrand canonical ensembleFermi-Dirac statisticsfermionsBloch's theoremclassical ideal gastight-binding approximationinsulatorsbosonsblack-body radiationGibbs-Duhem relationthermodynamic processesMonte Carlo computer simulationsBoltzmann's H-theorempostulates of thermodynamicsthermodynamic state functionscompressibility of metalsquantum harmonic crystalquantum mechanical partition function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to classical thermodynamics (80-01) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-01)

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