Download or read book Potts Models and Related Problems in Statistical Mechanics written by Paul Purdon Martin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potts Models and Related Problems in Statistical Mechanics
Download or read book Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Models written by David A. Lavis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most interesting and difficult problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics concern models which exhibit phase transitions. For graduate students and more experienced researchers this book provides an invaluable reference source of approximate and exact solutions for a comprehensive range of such models. Part I contains background material on classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, together with a classification and survey of lattice models. The geometry of phase transitions is described and scaling theory is used to introduce critical exponents and scaling laws. An introduction is given to finite-size scaling, conformal invariance and Schramm—Loewner evolution. Part II contains accounts of classical mean-field methods. The parallels between Landau expansions and catastrophe theory are discussed and Ginzburg--Landau theory is introduced. The extension of mean-field theory to higher-orders is explored using the Kikuchi--Hijmans--De Boer hierarchy of approximations. In Part III the use of algebraic, transformation and decoration methods to obtain exact system information is considered. This is followed by an account of the use of transfer matrices for the location of incipient phase transitions in one-dimensionally infinite models and for exact solutions for two-dimensionally infinite systems. The latter is applied to a general analysis of eight-vertex models yielding as special cases the two-dimensional Ising model and the six-vertex model. The treatment of exact results ends with a discussion of dimer models. In Part IV series methods and real-space renormalization group transformations are discussed. The use of the De Neef—Enting finite-lattice method is described in detail and applied to the derivation of series for a number of model systems, in particular for the Potts model. The use of Pad\'e, differential and algebraic approximants to locate and analyze second- and first-order transitions is described. The realization of the ideas of scaling theory by the renormalization group is presented together with treatments of various approximation schemes including phenomenological renormalization. Part V of the book contains a collection of mathematical appendices intended to minimise the need to refer to other mathematical sources.
Download or read book Statistical Mechanics Made Simple written by Daniel C Mattis and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an elaboration of the author's lecture notes in a graduate course in statistical physics and thermodynamics, augmented by some material suitable for self-teaching as well as for undergraduate study. The first 4 or 5 chapters are suitable for an undergraduate course for engineers and physicists in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics and include detailed study of the various ensembles and their connections to applied thermodynamics. The Debye law of specific heats and reasons for deviations from the Debye formulas are covered, as are the Einstein theories of Brownian motion, black-body radiation and specific heat of solids. Van der Waals gases and the reason for the apparent failure of his Law of Corresponding States are discussed. The last 5 chapters treat topics of recent interest to researchers, including: the Ising and Potts models, spin waves in ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic media, sound propagation in non-ideal gases and the decay of sound waves, introduction to the understanding of glasses and spin glasses, superfluidity and superconductivity. The selection of material is wide-ranging and the mathematics for handling it completely self-contained, ranging from counting (probability theory) to quantum field theory as used in the study of fermions, bosons and as an adjunct in the solutions of the equations of classical diffusion-reaction theory. In addition to the standard material found in most recent books on statistical physics the constellation of topics covered in this text includes numerous original items: • Generalization of “negative temperature” to interacting spins • Derivation of Gibbs' factor from first principles • Exact free energy of interacting particles in 1D (e.g., classical and quantum Tonk's gas) • Introduction to virial expansions, Equations of State, Correlation Functions and “critical exponents” • Superfluidity in ideal and non-ideal fluids (both Bogolubov and Feynman theories) • Superconductivity: thermodynamical approach and the BCS theory • Derivation of “Central Limit Theorem” and its applications • Boltzmann's “H-Theorem” and the nonlinear Boltzmann equation • Exact solution of nonlinear Boltzmann Equation for electrons in time-dependent electric field and the derivation of Joule heating, transport parameters in crossed electric and magnetic fields, etc. • Frequency spectrum and decay of sound waves in gases • Exact evaluation of free energy and thermodynamic properties of the two-dimensional Ising model in regular and fully frustrated (spin-glass like) lattices • The “zipper” model of crystal fracture or polymer coagulation — calculation of Tc • Potts model in 2D: duality and Tc • “Doi's theory” of diffusion-limited chemical reactions with some exact results — including the evaluation of statistical fluctuations in radioactive decay • Thermodynamic Green Functions and their applications to fermions and bosons with an example drawn from random matrix theory and much more.
Download or read book Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems written by David Lavis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-03-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the interesting and difficult problems in statistical mechanics arise when the constituent particles of the system interact with each other with pair or multipartiele energies. The types of behaviour which occur in systems because of these interactions are referred to as cooperative phenomena giving rise in many cases to phase transitions. This book and its companion volume (Lavis and Bell 1999, referred to in the text simply as Volume 1) are princi pally concerned with phase transitions in lattice systems. Due mainly to the insights gained from scaling theory and renormalization group methods, this subject has developed very rapidly over the last thirty years. ' In our choice of topics we have tried to present a good range of fundamental theory and of applications, some of which reflect our own interests. A broad division of material can be made between exact results and ap proximation methods. We have found it appropriate to inelude some of our discussion of exact results in this volume and some in Volume 1. Apart from this much of the discussion in Volume 1 is concerned with mean-field theory. Although this is known not to give reliable results elose to a critical region, it often provides a good qualitative picture for phase diagrams as a whole. For complicated systems some kind of mean-field method is often the only tractable method available. In this volume our main concern is with scaling theory, algebraic methods and the renormalization group.
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Download or read book Exactly Soluble Models In Statistical Mechanics Historical Perspectives And Current Status written by Christopher King and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-02-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the conference on 'Exactly Soluble Models in Statistical Mechanics: Historical Perspectives and Current Status', held at Northeastern University in March 1996 — the first ever conference to deal exclusively with this topic. Besides invited presentations by leading researchers in the field, the conference held a session of contributed papers by participants from throughout the world. The proceedings, which include both the invited and the contributed papers, reflect the broad range of interest in exactly soluble models as well as the diverse fields in physics and mathematics that they connect. Apart from providing concise and timely reviews, the papers in this volume give a snapshot of the current state of affairs. The topics covered range from a historical survey of the field (by E H Lieb) to the latest formulation of a star-star transformation of spin models (by R J Baxter).
Download or read book Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics written by Rodney J. Baxter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics
Download or read book Statistical Physics On The Eve Of The 21st Century In Honour Of J B Mcguire On The Occasion Of His 65th Birthday written by Luc T Wille and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-02-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of original papers and reviews in honour of James McGuire, one of the pioneers of integrable models in statistical physics. The broad range of articles offers a timely perspective on the current status of statistical mechanics, identifying both recent results as well as future challenges. The work contains a number of overviews of standard topics such as exactly solved lattice models and their various applications in statistical physics, from models of strongly correlated electrons to the conformational properties of polymer chains. It is equally wide ranging in its coverage of new directions and developing fields including quantum computers, financial markets, chaotic systems, Feigenbaum scaling, proteins, brain behaviour, immunology, Markov superposition, Bose-Einstein condensation, random matrices, exclusion statistics, vertex operator algebras and D-unsolvability.The level of coverage is appropriate for graduate students. It will be equally of interest to professional physicists who want to learn about progress in statistical physics in recent years. Experts will find this work useful because of its broad sweep of topics and its discussion of remaining unsolved problems.
Download or read book Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems written by David Lavis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the interesting and difficult problems in statistical mechanics arise when the constituent particles of the system interact with each other with pair or multipartiele energies. The types of behaviour which occur in systems because of these interactions are referred to as cooperative phenomena giving rise in many cases to phase transitions. This book and its companion volume (Lavis and Bell 1999, referred to in the text simply as Volume 1) are princi pally concerned with phase transitions in lattice systems. Due mainly to the insights gained from scaling theory and renormalization group methods, this subject has developed very rapidly over the last thirty years. ' In our choice of topics we have tried to present a good range of fundamental theory and of applications, some of which reflect our own interests. A broad division of material can be made between exact results and ap proximation methods. We have found it appropriate to inelude some of our discussion of exact results in this volume and some in Volume 1. Apart from this much of the discussion in Volume 1 is concerned with mean-field theory. Although this is known not to give reliable results elose to a critical region, it often provides a good qualitative picture for phase diagrams as a whole. For complicated systems some kind of mean-field method is often the only tractable method available. In this volume our main concern is with scaling theory, algebraic methods and the renormalization group.
Download or read book An Introduction To Stochastic Processes And Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics written by Horacio Sergio Wio and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994-02-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this textbook is to bring together, in a self-contained introductory form, the scattered material in the field of stochastic processes and statistical physics. It offers the opportunity of being acquainted with stochastic, kinetic and nonequilibrium processes. Although the research techniques in these areas have become standard procedures, they are not usually taught in the normal courses on statistical physics. For students of physics in their last year and graduate students who wish to gain an invaluable introduction on the above subjects, this book is a necessary tool.
Download or read book Statistical Mechanics Made Simple written by Daniel Charles Mattis and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition extends and improves on the first, illustrating through myriad examples, the principles and logic used in extending the simple laws of idealised Newtonian physics and quantum physics into the real world of noise and thermal fluctuations.
Download or read book Recent Developments in Quantum Affine Algebras and Related Topics written by Naihuan Jing and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the proceedings of the International Conference on Representations of Affine and Quantum Affine Algebras and Their Applications held at North Carolina State University (Raleigh). In recent years, the theory of affine and quantum affine Lie algebras has become an important area of mathematical research with numerous applications in other areas of mathematics and physics. Three areas of recent progress are the focus of this volume: affine and quantum affine algebras and their generalizations, vertex operator algebras and their representations, and applications in combinatorics and statistical mechanics. Talks given by leading international experts at the conference offered both overviews on the subjects and current research results. The book nicely presents the interplay of these topics recently occupying "centre stage" in the theory of infinite dimensional Lie theory.
Download or read book Lattice Statistics and Mathematical Physics written by Jacques H. H. Perk and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains thirty-six short papers on recent progress in a variety of subjects in mathematical and theoretical physics, written for the proceedings of a symposium in honor of the seventieth birthday of Professor F Y Wu, held at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, October 7OCo11, 2001. The collection of papers is aimed at researchers, including graduate students, with an interdisciplinary interest and gives a brief introduction to many of the topics of current interest. These include new results on exactly solvable models in statistical mechanics, integrable through the YangOCoBaxter equations, quantum groups, fractional statistics, random matrices, index theorems on the lattice, combinatorics, and other related topics."
Download or read book Lattice Statistics and Mathematical Physics written by Jacques H H Perk and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-11-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains thirty-six short papers on recent progress in a variety of subjects in mathematical and theoretical physics, written for the proceedings of a symposium in honor of the seventieth birthday of Professor F Y Wu, held at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, October 7–11, 2001. The collection of papers is aimed at researchers, including graduate students, with an interdisciplinary interest and gives a brief introduction to many of the topics of current interest. These include new results on exactly solvable models in statistical mechanics, integrable through the Yang–Baxter equations, quantum groups, fractional statistics, random matrices, index theorems on the lattice, combinatorics, and other related topics. Contents:Happer's Curious Degeneracies and Yangian (C-M Bai et al.)The Rotor Model and Combinatorics (M T Batchelor et al.)Mutually Local Fields from Form Factors (A Fring)Dimers and Spanning Trees: Some Recent Results (F Y Wu)Exotic Galilean Symmetry and the Hall Effect (C Duval & P A Horváthy)The Three-State Chiral Clock Model (B-Q Jin et al.)Quantum Dynamics and Random Matrix Theory (H Kunz)Short-Time Behaviors of Long-Ranged Interactions (H Fang et al.)Comments on the Deformed WN Algebra (S Odake)New Results for Susceptibilities in Planar Ising Models (H Au-Yang & J H H Perk)Limitations on Quantum Control (A I Solomon & S G Schirmer)R-Matrices and the Tensor Product Graph Method (M D Gould & Y-Z Zhang)and other papers Readership: Graduate students and researchers in mathematical physics and statistical mechanics. Keywords:Exactly Solvable Models in Statistical Mechanics;Integrable Models;Yang-Baxter Equations;Quantum Groups;Fractional Statistics;Dimer Models;Random Matrices;Index Theorems
Download or read book Disorder and Competition in Soluble Lattice Models written by Walter F. Wreszinski and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, existing literature on this subject matter can only be said to relate in minor areas to this work. Important concepts in statistical mechanics, such as frustration, localization, Lifshitz and Griffiths singularities, multicritical points, modulated phases, superselection sectors, spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Haldane phase, strange attractors and the Hausdorff dimension, and many others, are illustrated by exactly soluble lattice models. There are examples of simple lattice models which are shown to give rise to spectacular phase diagrams, with multicritical points and sequences of modulated phases. The models are chosen to enable a concise exposition as well as a connection with real physical systems (as dilute antiferromagnets, spin glasses and modulated magnets). A brief introduction to the properties of dynamical systems, an overview of conformal invariance and the Bethe Ansatz and a discussion of some general methods of statistical mechanics related to spontaneous symmetry breaking, are included in the appendices. A number of exercises are included in the text to help the comprehension of the most representative issues.
Download or read book Quantum Many Body Systems in One Dimension written by Zachary N C Ha and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-09-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main theme of the book is the intimate connection between the two families of exactly solvable models: the inverse-square exchange (ISE) and the nearest-neighbor exchange (NNE) models. The latter are better known as the Bethe-Ansatz solvable models and include the Heisenberg spin chain, t–J models and Hubbard models. The former, the Calogero–Sutherland family of models, are simple to solve and contain essentially the same physics as the NNE family. The author introduces and discusses current topics, such as the Luttinger liquid concept, fractional statistics, and spin–charge separation, in the context of the explicit models. Contents:IntroductionHeisenberg Spin ChainThe 1D Hubbard ModelModels with Inverse-Square ExchangeStrings in Long-Range Interaction ModelElementary Excitations of t-J ModelFractional Statistics in One-Dimension: View from an Exactly Solvable ModelConcluding Remarks Readership: Graduate students, researchers in statistical mechanics, mathematical physics and condensed matter physics. keywords:Quantum;Many-Body;One;Inverse Square;Exchange;Luttinger;Fractional Statistics
Download or read book Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups written by Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The representation theory of the symmetric groups is a classical topic that, since the pioneering work of Frobenius, Schur and Young, has grown into a huge body of theory, with many important connections to other areas of mathematics and physics. This self-contained book provides a detailed introduction to the subject, covering classical topics such as the Littlewood–Richardson rule and the Schur–Weyl duality. Importantly the authors also present many recent advances in the area, including Lassalle's character formulas, the theory of partition algebras, and an exhaustive exposition of the approach developed by A. M. Vershik and A. Okounkov. A wealth of examples and exercises makes this an ideal textbook for graduate students. It will also serve as a useful reference for more experienced researchers across a range of areas, including algebra, computer science, statistical mechanics and theoretical physics.
