Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions. J. M. Yeomans

Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions


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Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions J. M. Yeomans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA




Abstract: This paper Looks at the early theory of phase transitions. This classic text, first published in 3993, is designed for graduate physics courses in statistical mechanics. It considers a group of related concepts derived from condensed matter and statistical physics. I was doing classical geophysics until the mid-1980s when I became aware of this area called complexity and chaos theory, which sounded like statistical physics, a subject I had always enjoyed. Kadanoff's work in the theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, for example, led to a better understanding of the conversion of water to ice or water to water vapor. Statistical mechanics – Classical statistics, Fermi-Dirac and Bose – Einstein statistics. Thermodynamics – Laws of thermodynamics, Heat engines, Entropy, Thermodynamic potentials, Phase transitions. A new mean field statistical mechanics model of two interacting groups of spins is introduced and the phase transition studied in terms of their relative size. Statistical Physics of Biological Systems: epidemic models, branching processes, evolutionary dynamics. In 1989, I met Bill Kline, who was Once you think of them like that, you can describe them with a field theory, which is pretty much the same way they describe phase transitions in high-energy physics—the decay of the false vacuum in the early universe, for instance.