Statistical Mechanics

Lecturer: Doron Cohen

Assistant: Amir Erez

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Teaching material:

Lectures Notes in Statistical Mechanics and Mesoscopics [version 1 (arXiv)]
Recorded Lectures: 2012
Exercises Pool and Solutions [Surf the pool]

Additional Sources:

F. Reif
K. Huang
Landau-Lifshitz
R.P. Feynman
Horovitz (2007)
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Course Plan:

Exercises are listed by topic and are scheduled one week after the lecture.
On the average there are 2 class + 3 home exercises per week.

week	topic	source(*)	class exercises	home exercises
1	Random variables Quantum / Statistical states	[1] [2]	(0080) 0060 0150	0010 0020 0030 0050 0070 0160
2	Canonical formalism Thermodynamics	[3] [4]	(2051) (2052) 1817 2311 2351 2360	2040 2042 2050 2060 2070
3	Chemical Equilibrium The grand canonical formalism (exercises refer to quantum gases, scheduled week 5)	[5]	(2090+3555) 3336 3021 3550 3745	3010 3030 3040 3520 3540 3570
4	Ideal Gases - Boltzmann, Fermi, Bose (exercises refer to chemical equilibrium, scheduled week 6)	[6]	4016 4211	4213 4441 4550
5	The kinetic description of a gas, Boltzmann	[17]	6030 6040	6050 6070

6	System with interactions, Virial expansion, Yang and Lee theorems.	[7]	5024 5811 5963	5955 5969 5010
7	Ising model and its variations.	[8]	5651 5966	5971 5660
8	Phase Transitions - Mean Field theory.	[9]	5956	5641 5958 5721
9	Critcial behavior - Field theory approach.	[10]

10	Fluctuations in equilibrium Linear response theory Fluctuation-Dissipation relation	[11] [12] [13]	(7050) 7040	7020
11	System+Bath paradigm Langevin Equation Fokker-Planck Equation Quantum Master Equations	[15]	8481 8483	8025 8032 8484 8490
12	Nonequilibrium processes Fluctuations out of equilibrium	[20]

	Additional exercises (optional)			`2320234030203050` `4013 401560106020`

(*) Sections in the lecture notes