STATISTICAL MECHANICS
- Module code: MP461
- Credits: 5
- Semester: 1
- Department: THEORETICAL PHYSICS
- International:
- Coordinator: Dr Joost Slingerland (THEORETICAL PHYSICS)
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Partition functions (simple sub-systems, ideal gas, simple solids, ferro-magnet, Ising model). Micro-canonical and grand canonical ensembles. Phase transitions and critical phenomena. Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Bose-Einstein condensation (superconductors and super-fluids). Information theoretic approach to entropy and partition function. |
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