Instructors:
Professor Cecilia Clementi <cecilia.clementi@fu-berlin.de>
Tutors:
Iryna Zaporozhets <iryna@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Edoardo Rolando <er3887fu@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Jacopo Venturin <jacopo@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
EXAM DATES:
29.07.2025, 10:00-12:00
30.09.2025, 10:00-12:00
Lecture time:
Tuesday 10:00-12:00
Friday 10:00-12:00
Lecture location:
The lectures will be in person and will be held in 0.1.01 Lecture Hall B (Arnimallee 14).
Tutorial location and time:
All tutorials will be in person.
There are three available times for the tutorials, which will be held in different rooms as follows:
Tuesday 4:00-6:00 p.m --> 1.1.26 Seminarraum E1 (Arnimallee 14),
Tuesday 4:00-6:00 p.m. --> 1.4.03 Seminarraum T2 (Arnimallee 14)
Friday 12:00-2:00 p.m. --> 1.1.26 Seminarraum E1 (Arnimallee 14)
The course will cover:
- equilibrium ensembles
- thermodynamics: thermodynamic potentials, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles
- ideal quantum gases
- phase transitions
- interacting systems
- Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
literature
- RK Pathria, Statistical Mechanics (Butterworth Heinemann 1996)
- F. Schwabl, Statistical Mechanics (2nd ed., Springer 2006)
- F. Reif, Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics (McGraw-Hill 1965)
- W. Nolting, Basic Course Theoretical Physics 6: Statistical Physics (Springer 2005)
Lecture Schedule (tentative)
01. Tuesday, April 15
Introduction
02. Tuesday, April 22
Probability and Statistics
03. Friday, April 25
Probability and Statistics
04. Tuesday, April 29
Recap of Classical Mechanics
05. Friday, May 2
Microcanonical Ensemble
06. Tuesday, May 6
Microcanonical Ensemble
07. Friday, May 9
Microcanonical Ensemble
08. Tuesday, May 13
Canonical Ensemble
09. Friday, May 16
Canonical Ensemble
10. Tuesday, May 20
Grand Canonical Ensemble
11. Friday, May 23
Grand Canonical Ensemble
12. Tuesday, May 27
Some applications
13. Friday, May 30
ideal gas
14. Tuesday, June 3
Classical Thermodynamics
15. Friday, June 6
Classical Thermodynamics
16. Tuesday, June 10
Classical Thermodynamics
17. Friday, June 13
Classical Thermodynamics
18. Tuesday, June 17
Quantum Statistics
19. Friday, June 20
Quantum Statistics
20. Tuesday, June 24
Bose-Einstein Systems
21. Friday, June 27
Fermi Dirac Systems
22. Tuesday, July 1
Interacting Systems
23. Friday, July 4
Interacting Systems
24. Tuesday, July 8
cluster expansion
25. Friday, July 11
cluster expansion
26. Tuesday, July 15
Perturbation Theory
27. Friday, July 18
Review - preparation for the exam