BGU Physics Department
Statistical Mechanics
Lecturer: Doron Cohen
Assistant: Amir Erez
Administration:
Teaching material:- Lectures Notes in Statistical Mechanics and Mesoscopics [version 1 (arXiv)]
- Exercises Pool and Solutions [Surf the pool]
Additional Sources:
- F. Reif
- K. Huang
- Landau-Lifshitz
- R.P. Feynman
- Horovitz (2007)
- Browse old versions
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) |
0010 |
3 |
Canonical formalism Thermodynamics |
[3] [4] |
(2051) |
2040/2042 |
| 4 |
Chemical Equilibrium The grand canonical formalism (exercises refer to quantum gases, scheduled week 5) |
[5] |
(2090+3555) |
3010 |
| 5 |
Ideal Gases - Boltzmann, Fermi, Bose (exercises refer to chemical equilibrium, scheduled week 6) | [6] |
4016 |
4213 |
| 6 |
The kinetic description of a gas, Boltzmann |
[17] |
6030 |
6050 |
| 7 |
System with interactions, Virial expansion, Yang and Lee theorems. |
[7] |
5024 |
5955 |
| 8 |
Ising model and its variations. | [8] |
5651 |
5971 |
| 9 |
Phase Transitions - Mean Field theory. |
[9] |
5956 |
5641 |
| 10 |
Critcial behavior - Field theory approach. |
[10] | ||
| 11 |
Fluctuations in equilibrium Linear response theory Fluctuation-Dissipation relation |
[11] [12] [13] |
(7050) |
7020 |
| 12 |
System+Bath paradigm Langevin Equation Fokker-Planck Equation Quantum Master Equations |
[15] |
8481 |
8032 |
| 13 | Nonequilibrium processes Fluctuations out of equilibrium | [20] |
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| Additional exercises (optional) |
2320 2340 3020 3050 4013 4015 6010 6020 |