Statistical Physics of Equilibrium. English Photocopy Edition (Second Edition)

Author: [Canada] Priscol, [Canada] Bergson
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Features: This textbook is written for the professional needs of graduate students and senior undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, and materials science. As early as 1980, after K.G. Wilson pioneered the introduction of the renormalization group method into critical phenomena and achieved success, the study of condensed matter physics entered a golden age of rapid development. Therefore, the authors believed that the early teaching work for graduate students should reflect this dynamic. To this end, in 1989, Prentice-Hall Publishing Company was the first to publish "Equilibrium Statistical Physics," which reflected these characteristics. In 1994, it was revised and published by World Scientific as this edition. In 1999, the second edition was published, and now presented to the readers is the 2003 version. The book is divided into 11 chapters. The first two chapters review thermodynamics and statistical system theory. This part serves as both the foundation for readers to study the later chapters and is designed for students who have not been exposed to thermodynamics and statistical physics during their undergraduate studies. Both chapters contain a large number of exercises to help readers deepen their understanding. The following chapters cover mean-field theory and Landau theory, dense gases and liquids, the two-dimensional Ising model of critical phenomena, series expansions, scaling laws, and the renormalization group method, among others. Chapter 7 introduces dynamic simulation methods. Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11 introduce the most active application areas of statistical physics: polymers and thin films, quantum fluids, linear response theory, disordered systems, and more. Since the latter half of the book involves the concept of second quantization, the content of the occupation number representation is supplemented in the appendix. Each chapter of the book contains numerous exercises, with increasing difficulty as the chapters progress.