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The grand canonical ensemble Density and energy fluctuations in the grand canonical ensemble Thermodynamic phase diagrams Phase equilibrium and the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.
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The partition function The classical systems Energy fluctuations in the canonical ensemble Equipartition and virial theorems Harmonic oscillators Paramagnetism Negative temperatures Phase space of a classical system Liouville's theorem The microcanonical ensemble Quantum states and the phase space. Macroscopic and microscopic states The link between Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Classical Ideal Gases The Gibbs paradox
- The Statistical Basis of Thermodynamics.
- We will cover the first 6 chapters in Pathria's book and some material in chapters 7-10: Warning: handwritten, numerous typos and errors.
- Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics by Chandler.
- Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Molecular Simulation by Tuckerman.
- Statistical Mechanics by Pathria and Beale.
- Thermodynamic fluctuations and correlation functions, spatial and temporal correlations, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, Onsager relations. General phenomenology, first and second order phase transitions, models of magnetic systems, lattice gas models, spontaneous symmetry breaking, breaking of ergodicity, Landau theory, mean field approximation, upper and lower critical dimensions, transfer matrix, critical exponents, universality classes, scaling theory. The virial expansion, van der Waals fluid, liquid-gas phase transitions.
The second and third law of thermodynamics, thermodynamic ensembles, ergodicity, Liouville theorem, The virial theorem.Ĭlassical, Fermi and Bose gases, black body radiation, Bose Einstein condensation, Landau diamagnetism, ideal gases with internal degrees of freedom. Tsvi Tlusty Statistical Physics Course - Theory of Life, Physical Biology, Theoretical Biology, Molecular Codes, Proteins