1.GeneralPreliminaries
1.1Overview
1.1.1SubjectsofStatisticalMechanics
1.1.2ApproachtoEquilibrium
1.2Averages
1.2.1ProbabilityDistribution
1.2.2AveragesandThermodynamicFluctuation
1.2.3AveragesofaMechanicalSystem-VidalTheorem
1.3TheLiouvilleTheorem
1.3.1DensityMatrix
1.3.2ClassicalLiouville'sTheorem
1.3.3Wigner'sDistributionFunction
1.3.4TheCorrespondenceBetweenClassicalandQuantumMechanics
2.OutlinesofStatisticalMechanics
2.1ThePrinciplesofStatisticalMechanics
2.1.1ThePrincipleofEqualProbability
2.1.2MicrocanonicalEnsemble
2.1.3Boltzmann'sPrinciple
2.1.4TheNumberofMicroscopicStates,ThermodynamicLimit
a)AFreeParticle
b)AnIdealGas.
c)SpinSystem
d)TheThermodynamicLimit
2.2Temperature
2.2.1TemperatureEquilibrium
2.2.2Temperature
2.3ExternalForces
2.3.1PressureEquilibrium
2.3.2AdiabaticTheorem
a)AdiabaticChange
b)AdiabaticTheoreminStatisticalMechanics
c)AdiabaticTheoreminClassicalMechanics
2.3.3ThermodynamicRelations
2.4SubsystemswithaGivenTemperature
2.4.1CanonicalEnsemble
2.4.2Boltzmann-Planck'sMethod
2.4.3SumOverStates
2.4.4DensityMatrixandtheB!ochEquation
2.5SubsystemswithaGivenPressure
2.6SubsystemswithaGivenChemicalPotential
2.6.1ChemicalPotential
2.6.2GrandPartitionFunction
2.7FluctuationandCorrelation
2.8TheThirdLawofThermodynamics,Nernst'sTheorem
2.8.1MethodofLoweringtheTemperature
3.Applications
3.1QuantumStatistics
3.1.1Many-ParticleSystem
3.1.2OscillatorSystems(PhotonsandPhonons)
3.1.3BoseDistributionandFermiDistribution
a)DifferenceintheDegeneracyofSystems
b)ASpecialCase
3.1.4DetailedBalancingandtheEquilibriumDistribution
3.1.5EntropyandFluctuations
3.2IdealGases.
3.2.1LevelDensityofaFreeParticle
3.2.2IdealGas
a)AdiabaticChange
b)HighTemperatureExpansion
c)DensityFluctuation
3.2.3BoseGas
3.2.4FermiGas
3.2.5RelativisticGas
a)PhotonGas
b)FermiGas
c)ClassicalGas
3.3ClassicalSystems
3.3.1QuantumEffects'andClassicalStatistics
a)ClassicalStatistics
b)LawofEquipartitionofEnergy
3.3.2Pressure
3.3.3SurfaceTension
3.3.4ImperfectGas
3.3.5ElectronGas
3.3.6Electrolytes
4.PhaseTransitions
4.1Models
4.1.1ModelsforFerromagnetism
4.1.2LatticeGases
4.1.3CorrespondenceBetweentheLatticeGasandtheIsingMagnet
4.1.4SymmetricPropertiesinLatticeGases
4.2AnalyticityofthePartitionFunctionandThermodynamicLimit
4.2.1ThermodynamicLimit
4.2.2ClusterExpansion
4.2.3ZerosoftheGrandPartitionFunction
4.3One-DimensionalSystems
4.3.1ASystemwithNearest-NeighborInteraction
4.3.2LatticeGases
4.3.3Long-RangeInteractions
4.3.4OtherModels
4.4IsingSystems
4.4.1Nearest-NeighborInteraction
a)One-DimensionalSystems
b)Many-DimensionalSystems
c)Two-DimensionalSystems
d)CuriePoint
4.4.2MatrixMethod
a)One-DimensionalIsingSystem
b)Two-DimensionalIsingSystems
4.4.3ZerosontheTemperaturePlane
4.4.4SphericalModel
4.4.5Eight-VertexModel
4.5ApproximateTheories
4.5.1MolecularFieldApproximation,WeissApproximation
4.5.2BetheApproximation
4.5.3LowandHighTemperatureExpansions
4.6CriticalPhenomena.
4.6.1CriticalExponents
4.6.2PhenomenologicalTheory
4.6.3Scaling
4.7RenormalizationGroupMethod
4.7.1RenormalizationGroup
4.7.2FixedPoint
4.7.3CoherentAnomalyMethod
5.ErgodicProblems
5.1SomeResultsfromClassicalMechanics
5.1.1TheLiouvilleTheorem
5.1.2TheCanonicalTransformation
5.1.3ActionandAngleVariables
5.1.4IntegrableSystems
5.1.5Geodesics
5.2ErgodicTheorems(I)
5.2.1Birkhoff'sTheorem
5.2.2MeanErgodicTheorem
5.2.3Hopf'sTheorem
5.2.4MetricalTransitivity
5.2.5Mixing
5.2.6Khinchin'sTheorem
5.3AbstractDynamicalSystems
5.3.1BernoulliSchemesandBaker'sTransformation
5.3.2ErgodicityontheTorus
5.3.3K-Systems(KolmogorovTransformation)
5.3.4C-Systems
5.4ThePoincareandFermiTheorems
5.4.1Bruns'Theorem
5.4.2Poincare-Fermi'sTheorem
5.5Fermi-Pasta-Ulam'sProblem
5.5.1NonlinearLatticeVibration.
5.5.2ResonanceConditions
5.5.3InductionPhenomenon
5.6ThirdIntegrals
5.7TheKolmogorov,Arnol'dandMoserTheorem
5.8ErgodicTheorems(II)
5.8.1WeakConvergence
5.8.2Ergodicity
5.8.3EntropyandIrreversibility
5.9QuantumMechanicalSystems
5.9.1TheoremsinQuantumMechanicalSystems
5.9.2ChaoticBehaviorinQuantumSystems
5.9.3CorrespondenceBetweenClassicalandQuantumChaos
5.9.4QuantumMechanicalDistributionFunction
GeneralBibliography
References
SubjectIndex