Preface
Chapter1 Thermodynamics
1.1 A Recollection of Basic Notions in CLassical Thermodynamics
1.2 Thermodynamic Potentials,Stability Conditions
1.3 A Mathematical Digression:Integrating Factors and
1A Thermodynamics of Paramagnetic Bodies
1C Some Relations on Partial Derivatives & Jacoblans
1D A Digression on:Integrability Conditions
Problems
Chapter2 Equilibrium Classical Statistical Mechanics
2.1 Foundations of Classical Statistical Mechanics
2.2 Statistical Ensembles in CSM:Micro-canonical Ensemble
2.3 Statistical Ensembles in CSM:Canonical and Grand-Canonial Ensembles
2.4 Response,Correlations and Fluctuations:I Classical
2A Harmonic Oscillators &Ergodicity
2B The Volume Phase Space for a Perfect Gas
2C Density-Density Correlation Function of a Perfect Gas
Problems
Chapter3 Spin Hamiltonians I:Classical
3.1 Spin Hamiltonians
3.2 Gaussian Identities for Spin Hamiltonians
3.3 Mean Field Theory and Phase Transitions
3.4 Linearized Spin ynamics:Spin Waves,Response and Correla-tions
3.5 SSE,Goldstone and Mermin-Wagner Theorems
3A Poisson Description of Spin Dynamics
3B Perturbation expansions and the Classical Analogue of Wick s Theorem
3C "Conventional"Mean Field Theory
3D Some Group-Theoretical Aspects Related to SSB
Problems
Chapter4 Equilibrium Quantum Statistical Mechanics
4.1 Resume of Quantum Mechanics
4.2 Foundations of Quantum Statistical Mechanics:Ensembles
4.3 Response,Correlations and FluctuationsII:Quantum
4A Two-level Systems
Chapter5 Identical Particles in Quantum Statistical Me-chanics
5.1 Statistics and Identical Particles in QSM
5.2 Fock Spaces & Second Quantization
5.3 Quantum Gases and Beyond
Prolems
Chapter6 Spin Hamiltonians II:Quantum
6.1 The Heisenberg Model Hamiltonian
6.2 Partition Function and Path Integrals
6.3 Mean-Field Approximations and SSB:ferro and Antiferro Mag-netism
Problems
Chapter7 Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
7.1 Introduction to Phase Transitions
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Chapter8 Model Systems,Scaling Laws and Mean Field
Chapter9 Superfluids and Superfluidity
Chapter10 The Renormalizaton Group and Critical Phenomena
AppendixA Mathematical DigressionⅠ:Differentiable Manifolds and Exteror Calculus
AppendixB Mathematical DigressionⅡ:Some Mathematics of Hilbert Spaces
AppendixC Linear Stability Theory
AppendixD Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Problems for NonSymmetric Matrices
Bibliography
Index