"Version: 20250401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.part I. Basic concepts. 1. From Brownian motion to the Langevin equation -- 1.1. From the surprising behaviour of pollen grains to the existence of atoms -- 1.2. Toward a mathematical theory -- 1.3. Again about the Langevin equation -- 1.4. Further remarks2. The Boltzmann equation -- 2.1. Boltzmann equation in a…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. From complex to simple : lattice models, agents, rules -- 2. Stochastic cellular highways, random walks and the master equation -- 3. Nanoparticle self-assembly on Cayley trees : a simple model of drug encapsulation in nanomedicine -- 4.…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Equality '=' -- 2. Fundamental properties of sets -- 2.1. What is a set? -- 2.2. Defining a set -- 2.3. Equality of sets -- 2.4. A set can be an element of another set -- 2.5. A set cannot contain itself -- 2.6. A set can be empty (null)…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Molecular dynamics -- 1.1. Single particle -- 1.2. Time reversibility -- 1.3. Multiple particles -- 1.4. Randomness -- 1.5. Further reading -- 1.6. Problems -- 1.7. Challenges2. Ising model -- 2.1. Monte Carlo method -- 2.2. Ising model -- 2.3. Critical temperature -- 2.4. Critical mixtures -- 2.5. Further reading -- 2.6…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Phase space -- 2. Evolution of the phase space distribution function -- 3. Equilibrium distributions -- 4. Ensemble of free particles -- 5. Ensemble of interacting particles -- 6. Temperature -- 7. Pressure, stress and tension -- 8. Entropy -- 9. Gibbs distribution -- 10. Isothermal ensemble -- 11. Free energy -- 12. G…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 1.1. Introduction : statistical physics and thermodynamics -- 1.2. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy, and temperature -- 1.3. The 1st and 3rd laws of thermodynamics, and heat capacity -- 1.4. Thermodynamic potentials -- 1.5. Systems with variable number of particles -- 1.6. Thermal mach…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 2. Principles of physical statistics -- 3. Ideal and not-so-ideal gases -- 4. Phase transitions -- 5. Fluctuations -- 6. Elements of kinetics -- Appendices. A. Selected mathematical formulas -- B. Selected physical constants.Essential Advanced Physics is a series comprising four parts: Class…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso."This is a revised and enlarged edition of the monograph previously published by Springer in 1996 under the slightly shorter title Supersymmetric methods in quantum and statistical physics"--Page xi.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Supersymmetric quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Definition of SUSY quantum mechanics -- 2.2. Properties of N …
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction to: Statistical physics of condensed matter systems : a primer -- part I. Classical statistical physics. 1. The statistical description of a classical system -- 1.1. Basic concepts -- 1.2. Equilibrium distribution probability -- 1.3. The Boltzmann distribution law -- 1.4. A statistical definition of temperatu…
"Version: 20151001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- 1 Probability operator and statistical averages -- 1.1 Expectation, density operator and averages -- 1.2 Uniform weight density of wave space -- 1.3 Canonical equilibrium system -- 1.4 Environmental selection -- 1.5 Wave function collapse and the classical universe2 Examples and applications…