Physics 140B : Lecture Notes

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3

APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM

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4

STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES

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5 QUANTUM STATISTICS
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1,2,3
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INTERACTING SYSTEMS

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MEAN FIELD THEORY

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BOLTZMANN EQUATION

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LECTURE
DATE
TOPIC (click for lecture "black boards")
No. 1
1/5
Grand canonical ensemble for quantum statistics
No. 2
1/7
Maxwell-Boltzmann limit, density of states
No. 3 1/9 Virial equation of state
No. 4 1/12 Photon statistics
No. 5 1/14 Blackbody radiation, Ideal Bose gas
No. 6 1/16 Bose-Einstein condensation
No. 7 1/21 Ideal Fermi gas
No. 8 1/23 Sommerfeld expansion
No. 9 1/26 Magnetism in the electron gas
No. 10 1/28 1-dimensional Tonks gas
No. 11 1/30 Mayer cluster expansion
No. 12 2/2 Debye-Huckel theory
No. 13 2/4 Thomas-Fermi theory
No. 14 2/6 Ising model
No. 15 2/9 van der Waals I
No. 16 2/11 van der Waals II
No. 17 2/13 Mean field theory I
No. 18 2/18 Mean field theory II
No. 19 2/20 Landau theory of phase transitions
No. 20 2/23 Cubic terms, first order transitions, and hysteresis
No. 21 2/25 Sextic f(m) and tricritical point
No. 22 2/27 Variational density matrix MFT
No. 23 3/2 Introduction to transport
No. 24 3/4 Boltzmann equation
No. 25 3/6 Collisions, detailed balance, and the H-theorem