Overview
- Covers a broad range of methods applicable to both classical and quantum systems
- Helps readers to grasp various representations, from the standard probabilistic approach to more elaborated frameworks
- Provides a solid basis for addressing the statistical mechanics of a broad range of problems common to solid-state, nuclear and particle physics
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 974)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Methods in statistical mechanics
- Fermions and bosons at finite temperatures
- Relativistic and ultrarelativistic limits
- Operator methods in statistical mechanics
- Liouville equation in statistical mechanics
- Double (time-temperature) Green Functions
- Complex entropy and resonances in statistical mechanics
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Osvaldo Civitarese is an Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of La Plata, Argentina. He is an expert in nuclear structure and neutrino physics. During his tenure, he gave lectures in statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and nuclear structure. He has published more than 300 research papers, 50 conference articles, and one book on modern physics for undergraduate students. He got national and international awards like the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation prize. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science and a former Alexander von Humboldt fellow.
Dr. Manuel Gadella is a Professor of Physics at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He is an expert in mathematical physics. He is author of about 150 research papers and two books for undergraduate students. In collaboration with Prof. Arno Bohm (University of Texas at Austin), he wrote the book entitled "Dirac kets, Gamow vectors and Gelfand triplets" published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methods in Statistical Mechanics
Book Subtitle: A Modern View
Authors: Osvaldo Civitarese, Manuel Gadella
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53658-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53657-2Published: 08 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53658-9Published: 07 September 2020
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 181
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Complex Systems