Statistical Mechanics Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity

Name: Statistical Mechanics Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity
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ISBN: 9780198566779

ISBN-10: 0198566778

ISBN-13: 9780198566779

Edition: 2006

Authors: James P. Sethna

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In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and early graduate students in all of these fields, Sethna limits his main presentation to the topics that future mathematicians and biologists, as well as physicists and chemists, will find fascinating and central to their work. The amazing breadth of the field is reflected in the author's large…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




What is Statistical Mechanics?



Random Walks and Emergent Properties



Temperature and Equilibrium



Phase-space Dynamics and Ergodicity



Entropy



Free Energies



Quantum Statistical Mechanics



Calculation and Computation



Order Parameters, Broken Symmetry, and Topology



Correlations, Response, and Dissipation



Abrupt Phase Transitions



Continuous Phase Transitions


Appendix