Methods of Statistical Physics

Name: Methods of Statistical Physics
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ISBN: 9780521589581

ISBN-10: 0521589584

ISBN-13: 9780521589581

Edition: 2002

Authors: Tomoyasu Tanaka

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This graduate-level textbook on thermal physics covers classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and its applications. It describes theoretical methods to calculate thermodynamic properties, such as the equation of state, specific heat, Helmholtz free energy, magnetic susceptibility and phase transitions of macroscopic systems. In addition to the more standard material covered, this book also describes powerful techniques, which are not found elsewhere, to determine the correlation effects on which the thermodynamic properties are based. Particular emphasis is given to the cluster variation method and a novel formulation is developed for its expression in terms of correlation…

Book details

List price: $73.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/14/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Laws of thermodynamics



Thermodynamic relations



The ensemble theory



System Hamiltonians



The density matrix



The cluster variation method



Infinite series representations of correlation functions



The extended mean-field approximation



The exact Ising lattice identities



Propagation of short range order



Phase transition of the two-dimensional Ising model



The gamma function



The critical exponent in the tetrahedron approximation



Programming organization of the cluster variation method



A unitary transformation applied to the Hubbard Hamiltonian



Exact Ising identities on the diamond lattice


References


Subject index