Advanced Statistical Mechanics

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Barry M McCoy (Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook)

Advanced Statistical Mechanics

Barry M McCoy (Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook)

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Oxford University Press
03 December 2009

Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics); Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); Statistical physics; Mathematical physics

Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics

Statistical Mechanics is the study of systems where the number of interacting particles becomes infinite. In the last fifty years tremendous advances have been made which have required the invention of entirely new fields of mathematics such as quantum groups and affine Lie algebras. They have engendered remarkable discoveries concerning non-linear differential equations and algebraic geometry, and have produced profound insights in both condensed matter physics and quantum field theory. Unfortunately, none of these advances are taught in graduate courses in statistical mechanics.

This book is an attempt to correct this problem. It begins with theorems on the existence (and lack) of order for crystals and magnets and with the theory of critical phenomena, and continues by presenting the methods and results of fifty years of analytic and computer computations of phase transitions. It concludes with an extensive presentation of four of the most important of exactly solved problems: the Ising, 8 vertex, hard hexagon and chiral Potts models.

By: Barry M McCoy (Institute for Theoretical Physics State University of New York Stony Brook)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 146
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 177mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199556632
ISBN 10: 0199556636
Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 03 December 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Basic Principles 2: Reductionism, Phenomena and Models 3: Stability, Existence and Uniqueness 4: Theorems on Order 5: Critical Phenomena and Scaling Theory 6: Mayer Virial Expansions and Groenevelt's Theorems 7: Ree-Hoover Virial Expansion and Hard Spheres 8: High Density Expansions 9: High Temperature Expansions for Magnets at H=0 10: The Ising Model in Two Dimensions; Summary of Results 11: The Pfaffian Solution of the Ising Model 12: Ising Model Spontaneous Magnetization, Form Factors and Susceptibility 13: The Star-Triangle (Yang-Baxter) Equation 14: The Eight Vertex and XYZ models 15: The RSOS and the Chiral Potts models 16: Conclusion

Barry M McCoy is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at C.N.Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the State University of New York. He took his PhD at Harvard University in 1967, and has since had various positions, including the Editorial Board of the Ramanujan Journal, the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics A, Resident at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Miller Professor at University of California at Berkeley. In 1999 he won the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.