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Advanced Statistical Mechanics


The lecture gives an introduction to advanced topics in statistical mechanics, chiefly interacting many-body systems, critical phenomena, stochastic dynamics, non-equilibrium phenomena

Some additional reading for the lecture

  1. Background: Introductory Statistical Mechanics (PDF)
  2. Virial equation of state far from equilibrium (html)
  3. Script (PDF)
  4. What is a "virial orgy"? (PDF)
  5. Depletion Interactions (cf. Fig.2)
  6. Microstructure of fluids (G. Nägele's Lecture Notes, PDF)
  7. Insightful review on many-body theory
  8. Onsager's classical DFT for the nematic transition
  9. Classical DFT for freezing
  10. Dimensional Analysis
  11. 2D Ising model -- history
  12. 2D Ising model -- alive and kicking
  13. Ising defects, spin ice and magnetic monopoles (in German)
  14. Rare 2D Ising ferromagnet discovery
  15. Wilson's Nobel lecture on the renormalization group (PDF)
  16. Einstein 1905
  17. Einstein 1905 (engl. translation)
  18. Script in German by Katharina Tholen