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