Statistical Mechanics
Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb
Published on 29. November 2004
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Hardback
X, 508 pages
978-3-540-22297-2 (ISBN)
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In
Statistical Physics
one of the ambitious goals is to derive rigorously, from statistical mechanics, the thermodynamic properties of models with realistic forces. Elliott Lieb is a mathematical physicist who meets the challenge of statistical mechanics head on, taking nothing for granted and not being content until the purported consequences have been shown, by rigorous analysis, to follow from the premises. The present volume contains a selection of his contributions to the field, in particular papers dealing with general properties of Coulomb systems, phase transitions in systems with a continuous symmetry, lattice crystals, and entropy inequalities. It also includes work on classical thermodynamics, a discipline that, despite many claims to the contrary, is logically independent of statistical mechanics and deserves a rigorous and unambiguous foundation of its own. The articles in this volume have been carefully annotated by the editors.
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2004 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
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Professional and scholarly
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Annotated edition
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X, 508 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
1990 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-22297-2 (9783540222972)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-10018-9
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Content
Commentaries.- A Survey by the Editors.- I. Thermodynamic Limit for Coulomb Systems.- I. 1 Existence of Thermodynamics for Real Matter with Coulomb Forces.- I. 2 The Constitution of Matter: Existence of Thermodynamics for Systems Composed of Electrons and Nuclei.- II. Hard Sphere Virial Coefficients.- II. 1 Suppression at High Temperature of Effects Due to Statistics in the Second Virial Coefficient of a Real Gas.- II. 2 Calculation of Exchange Second Virial Coefficient of a Hard-Sphere Gas by Path Integrals.- III. Zeros of Partition Functions.- III. 1 Monomers and Dimers.- III. 2 Theory of Monomer-Dimer Systems.- III. 3 A Property of Zeros of the Partition Function for Ising Spin Systems.- III. 4 A General Lee-Yang Theorem for One-Component and Multicomponent Ferromagnets.- IV. Reflection Positivity.- IV. 1 Existence of Phase Transitions for Anisotropic Heisenberg Models.- IV. 2 Phase Transitions in Anisotropic Lattice Spin Systems.- IV. 3 Phase Transitions in Quantum Spin Systems with Isotropic and Nonisotropic Interactions.- IV. 4 Phase Transitions and Reflection Positivity. I. General Theory and Long Range Lattice Models.- IV. 5 Phase Transitions and Reflection Positivity. II. Lattice Systems with Short-Range and Coulomb Interactions.- IV. 6 Lattice Models for Liquid Crystals.- IV. 7 Existence of Néel Order in Some Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnets.- IV. 8 The XY Model Has Long-Range Order for all Spins and all Dimensions Greater than One.- V. Classical Thermodynamics.- V. 1 The Third Law of Thermodynamics and the Degeneracy of the Ground State for Lattice Systems.- V. 2 A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.- V. 3 A Fresh Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.- VI. Lattice Systems.- VI. 1 Properties of a Harmonic Crystal in aStationary Nonequilibrium State.- VI. 2 The Statistical Mechanics of Anharmonic Lattices.- VI. 3 Time Evolution of Infinite Anharmonic Systems.- VI. 4 Lattice Systems with a Continuous Symmetry III. Low Temperature Asymptotic Expansion for the Plane Rotator Model.- VII. Miscellaneous.- VII. 1 The Finite Group Velocity of Quantum Spin Systems.- VII. 2 The Classical Limit of Quantum Spin Systems.- VII. 3 A Refinement of Simon's Correlation Inequality.- VII. 4 Fluxes, Laplacians, and Kasteleyn's Theorem.- Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb.- Publications of Elliott H. Lieb.