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Statistical mechanics.

Pathria, R. K.

Statistical mechanics. - 3rd ed, R.K. Pathria, Paul D. Beale. - Amsterdam ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, �2011. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 718 p.) : illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 687-705) and index.

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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