This volume collects the lecture notes of a course on statistical mechanics, held at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa for third-to-fifth year students in physics and chemistry. Three main themes are covered in the book. The first part gives a compact presentation of the foundations of statistical mechanics and their connections with thermodynamics. Applications to ideal gases of material particles and of excitation quanta are followed by a brief introduction to a real classical gas and to a weakly coupled classical plasma, and by a broad overview on the three states of matter. The second part is devoted to fluctuations around equilibrium and their correlations. Coverage of liquid structure and critical phenomena is followed by a discussion of irreversible processes as exemplified by diffusive motions and by the dynamics of density and heat fluctuations. Finally, the third part is an introduction to some advanced themes: supercooling and the glassy state, non-Newtonian fluids including polymers and liquid crystals, and dynamic instabilities and turbulence. These topics, which are largely taken over from the book of N.H. March and M. Tosi on Introduction to Liquid State Physics, are meant to stimulate the reader to further study of the literature in these technically important areas.

Statistical mechanics and the physics of fluids (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore, 1)

Science & Math

Tosi, Mario

Vignolo, Vignolo

Earth Sciences

Edizioni della Normale

<p>This volume collects the lecture notes of an introductory course on the theory of many-body systems, held at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. It is mainly addressed to fourth and fifth-year undergraduates and to first-year graduates in physics and chemistry. The book is also suitable for researchers in the field wanting to gain a general introductory overview on its modern focal points. Starting from a set of notes first prepared in 1994, which were mainly focused on conduction electrons in metals and semiconductors, these lecture notes are now being reprinted with some major changes and additions in order to provide the reader with an overview of recent developments in the understanding of low-dimensional electron fluids and of confined quantum gases made from bosonic and fermionic atoms and molecules. The book is divided into seven chapters and includes 18 appendices on specialized topics. The introductory chapter illustrates some of the longstanding problems in many-body physics. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 are mainly devoted to topics concerning electron fluids. A formal presentation of the theory of Green's functions and linear response functions for fermions in chapter 2 is followed by a chapter on electron liquids in the normal state and by a further chapter on the magnetism of conduction electrons and strongly correlated electron fluids. Chapter 5 turns to the formal theory of Green's functions and linear response functions for bosons. And finally, Chapters 6 and 7 are on trapped boson gases and on confined fermion gases and gaseous boson-fermion mixtures.</p>

Many-body physics in condensed matter systems (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore, 4)

Polini, Marco

<p>Bonechi, Florence, 1998 Most beautiful color pictures of the temple. Pictorial Card Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 31pp. The text supported by colour photographs in fine condition.</p>

The Tomb of Nefertari

Nasr, Mohamed

Bonechi, Florence

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