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Large book cover: Statistical Physics of Fields. Statistical Physics of Fields by Mehran Kardar. Publisher: MIT 2014. ISBN/ASIN: 052187341X. To collective phenomena; Dynamic critical behavior; Random systems. Home page url. Download or read it online for free here: Download link (multiple PDF files).
Mehran Kardar Statistical Physics Pdf
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This note presume a familiarity with basic undergraduate concepts in statistical mechanics, and with some basic concepts from first-year graduate quantum, such as harmonic oscillators and raising and lowering operators. Topics covered includes: Fundamentals of Statistical Physics, Statistical Mechanics of Non-Interacting Particles, Interacting Gases and the Liquid-Gas Phase Transition, Dynamics of Liquids and Gases, Lattices and Spins, Microscopic Models for Interacting Gases, Landau Field Theory.