"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Overview of thermodynamics -- 1.1. Basic concepts and terminology -- 1.2. The laws of thermodynamics -- 1.3. Fundamental equations -- 1.4. Thermal, mechanical, and chemical equilibria -- 1.5. Phase equilibria -- 1.6. Summary2. Brownian m…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why phase space? -- 1.2. Why not direct quantum methods? -- 1.3. Advantages and challenges of phase space -- 1.4. Old applications, new perspectives2. Wave packet formulation -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wave packets as eigenfunctions in the classical limit -- 2.3. Wave packet symmetrization and over…
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 0. Introduction -- 0.1. The internal energy of equilibrium crystals -- 0.2. Microscopic order variables and their fluctuations -- 0.3. Collective order variables in propagation -- 0.4. Crystal surfaces and entropy production -- 0.5. Timescales for sampling modulated structure and thermodynamic measurements -- 0…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Binary transitions. 1. Phonons and lattice stability -- 1.1. The space symmetry group and the internal energy in crystals -- 1.2. Normal modes in a monatomic lattice -- 1.3. Quantized normal modes -- 1.4. Phonon field and momentum -- 1.5. Specific heat of monatomic crystals -- 1.6. Approximate phonon distributions…