Statistical mechanics: entropy, order parameters, and complexity, 2nd edition

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Giovanni Volpe
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Order Parameters

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Sethna
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Topological Defects ◽  
Linear Response Theory ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Order Parameters ◽  
Free Energies ◽  
Onset Of Chaos ◽  
The Social ◽  
Essential Insight

This text distills the core ideas of statistical mechanics to make room for new advances important to information theory, complexity, active matter, and dynamical systems. Chapters address random walks, equilibrium systems, entropy, free energies, quantum systems, calculation and computation, order parameters and topological defects, correlations and linear response theory, and abrupt and continuous phase transitions. Exercises explore the enormous range of phenomena where statistical mechanics provides essential insight — from card shuffling to how cells avoid errors when copying DNA, from the arrow of time to animal flocking behavior, from the onset of chaos to fingerprints. The text is aimed at graduates, undergraduates, and researchers in mathematics, computer science, engineering, biology, and the social sciences as well as to physicists, chemists, and astrophysicists. As such, it focuses on those issues common to all of these fields, background in quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and advanced physics should not be needed, although scientific sophistication and interest will be important.

Statistical mechanics: entropy, order parameters, and complexity

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (04) ◽  
pp. 44-2172-44-2172 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Order Parameters

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity

2007 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga K. Dudko
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Order Parameters

On the statistical mechanics of coupled order parameters

1975 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Imry
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Order Parameters

Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Friedli ◽  
Yvan Velenik
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Lattice Systems

Statistical Mechanics

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Woods Halley
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics

Statistical Mechanics

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Widom
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics

Statistical Mechanics and Applications in Condensed Matter

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Di Castro ◽  
Roberto Raimondi
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Condensed Matter
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document