Pathria, R. K

Statistical mechanics - 3rd ed. / - Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2011 - xxvi, 718 p. : ill. ;

Machine generated contents note: Historical introduction; The statistical basis of thermodynamics; Elements of the ensemble theory; The canonical ensemble; The grand canonical ensemble; Formulation of quantum statistics; The theory of simple gases; Ideal Bose systems; Ideal Fermi systems; Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: The method of cluster explansions, the method of quantized fields; Phase transitions: critically, universality and scaling, exact (or almost exact) results for the various models, the renormalization group approach; Fluctuations

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Statistical mechanics

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