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Dewey Class	530.13 (DDC 22)
Title	Advanced statistical mechanics ([EBook]) / Barry M. McCoy.
Author	McCoy, Barry M.
Other name(s)	Oxford Scholarship Online
Publication	Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press , 2010
Physical Details	1 Online resource
Series	International series of monographs on physics ; 146
ISBN	9780191723278
Note	Print publication date: 2009. - Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010
Summary Note	This book begins where elementary books and courses leave off and covers the advances made in statistical mechanics in the past fifty years. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is on general theory which includes a summary of the basic principles of statistical mechanics; a presentation of the physical phenomena covered and the models used to discuss them; theorems on the existence and uniqueness of partition functions; theorems on order; and critical phenomena and scaling theory. The second part is on series and numerical methods which includes derivations of the Mayer and Ree–Hoover expansions of the low density virial equation of state; Groeneveld's theorems; the application to hard spheres and discs; a summary of numerical studies of systems at high density; and the use of high temperature series expansions to estimate critical exponents for magnets. The third part covers exactly solvable models which includes a detailed presentation of the Pfaffian methods of computing the Ising partition function, magnetization, correlation functions, and susceptibility; the star-triangle (Yang–Baxter equation); functional equations and the free energy for the eight-vertex model; and the hard hexagon and chiral Potts models. All needed mathematics is developed in detail and many open questions are discussed. The goal is to guide the reader to the current forefront of research.:
Mode of acces to digital resource	Digital reproduction.- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. - Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher)
System details note	Online access is restricted to subscribing institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556632.001.0001
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Statistical Mechanics . Authors: McCoy, Barry M. . Corporate Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online . Series: The International series of monographs on physics . Classification: 530.13 (DDC 22) .

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