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INITIATION INTO STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Editorial: García Maroto Editores

Edition: 1

publication date: 2025

ISBN: 9788419299826

ISBN ebook: 9788419299833

pages: 460

Section: Física

Language: Inglés

Chapter 1. Postulates of Statistical Physics
Chapter 2. Canonical Collective: Fundamental Properties
Chapter 3. Relationship between the canonical collective and Thermodynamics
Chapter 4. Grand canonical ensemble
Chapter 5. Microcanonical ensemble and the Second Principle of Thermodynamics
Chapter 6. Equilibrium in thermodynamic systems
Chapter 7. Complements: Thermodynamic potentials and the Third Principle
Chapter 8. Fluctuations
Chapter 9. Systems of distinguishable and indistinguishable independent particles. Boltzmanns statistics
Chapter 10. Fermi-Dirac statistics
Chapter 11. Bose-Einstein statistics
Chapter 12. Methods of Quantum Mechanics in Statistical Physics I
Chapter 13. Methods of Quantum Mechanics in Statistical Physics II
Chapter 14. Methods of Classical Mechanics in Statistical Physics I
Chapter 15. Methods of Classical Mechanics in Statistical Physics II
Chapter 16. Ideal monoatomic gas: Calculation of the partition function
Chapter 17. Ideal monoatomic gas: Thermodynamic Properties
Chapter 18. Ideal diatomic gas
Chapter 19. Ideal polyatomic gas
Chapter 20. Chemical equilibrium
Chapter 21. Reaction rates in mixtures of ideal gases
Chapter 22. Ideal gas in an electric field
Chapter 23. Ideal gas in a lattice
Chapter 24. Kinetic theory of gases
Chapter 25. The Boltzmann equation
Chapter 26. Solutions to the Boltzmann equation
Chapter 27. Introduction to Transport Theory
Chapter 28. Fundamentals of Irreversible Thermodynamics I: Mass and energy flow
Chapter 29. Fundamentals of Irreversible Thermodynamics Il: Entropy generation and linear processes
Chapter 30. Quantum description of the electromagnetic field: the photon gas
Chapter 31. Physico-statistical properties of the photon gas
Chapter 32. Electron gas. Definitions and properties at T=0
Chapter 33. Electron gas. Properties at T>0
Chapter 34. Electrons in periodic potentials
Chapter 35. Electrical conduction and classification of the materials
Chapter 36. Statistical Physics of Semiconductors
Chapter 37. The p-n junction: equilibrium state and transport properties
Chapter 38. Introduction to systems of interacting particles I: The van der Waals gas and phase transitions
Chapter 39. Introduction to interacting particle systems II: Elementary excitations
Appendix. Green functions and Feynman diagrams applied to many body systems
References

*The digital edition does not include access codes to additional material or programs mentioned in the book.

Since its first compilation it was quite clear to me that only an English edition of this text would provide access to the broadest possible audience, as intended by any such scientific writing. The huge amount of effort and time involved in the preparation of such an English edition, however, led me to postpone this task systematically, when being confronted with my other academic activities. In addition to this practical difficulty, there was another, probably deeper, cause for the delay in my preparing this new version related with the only aspect of the original text that had let me unsatisfied: the treatment of systems composed by interacting particles.

In this regard, and although strictly speaking the subject had been introduced in the first version, its initial formulation was so limited that it did not allow a minimum comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of this type of systems. Additionally, and besides the enormous actual importance of this type of systems, its formal treatment leads to two of the most inspiring ideas I have come across in Physics: Green’s functions and Feynman diagrams.

Fortunately, while considering the right timing to start preparing the English version, a couple of excellent textbooks were published on the subject of systems composed of interacting particles, both in equilibrium and out of equilibrium. Encouraged by the availability of these texts, I felt that I could prepare this extended material while maintaining the spirit of the original version: convey the fascination I feel for Statistical Physics by providing a friendly and accessible first step to the interested reader. I hope that this reader may, to some extent, enjoy its reading as much as I enjoyed its writing.

José Pérez Rigueiro
Departamento de Ciencia de Materiales ETSI Caminos , Canales y Puertos y Centro de Tecnología Biomédica Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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