Instructors:
Professor Cecilia Clementi <cecilia.clementi@fu-berlin.de>
Tutors:
Andrea Guljas <aguljas@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Edoardo Rolando <er3887fu@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Anil Kumar Sahoo <aksahoo@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
EXAM DATES:
19.07.2024, 10:00-12:00 location: HS 1b in the Rostlaube
10.09.2023, 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).
Course chat
The course chat is available here:
https://matrix.to/#/!nAWAQpxpKPFxOjLjVk:physik.fu-berlin.de?via=physik.fu-berlin.de
Borrow Kubo's book online
Link to legally borrow the book by Ryogo Kubo, "Statistical Mechanics, An Advanced Course with Problems and Solutions" to enrich problem-solving skills.
https://archive.org/details/statisticalmecha0000kubo_d3t4/page/58/mode/2up
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 12:00-14:00 --> 0.1.01 Hörsaal B (Arnimallee 14)
Tuesday 4:00-6:00 p.m. --> 1.4.03 Seminarraum T2 (Arnimallee 14)
Friday 12:00-14:00 --> 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 16
Introduction
02. Friday, April 19
Probability and Statistics
03. Tuesday, April 23
Probability and Statistics
04. Friday, April 26
Recap of Classical Mechanics
05. Tuesday, April 30
Microcanonical Ensemble
06. Friday, May 3
Microcanonical Ensemble
07. Tuesday, May 7
Microcanonical Ensemble
08. Friday, May 10
Canonical Ensemble
09. Tuesday, May 14
Canonical Ensemble
10. Friday, May 17
Grand Canonical Ensemble
11. Tuesday, May 21
Grand Canonical Ensemble
12. Friday, May 25
Some applications
13. Tuesday, May 28
ideal gas
14. Friday, May 31
Classical Thermodynamics
15. Tuesday, June 4
Classical Thermodynamics
16. Friday, June 7
Classical Thermodynamics
17. Tuesday, June 11
Classical Thermodynamics
18. Friday, June 14
Quantum Statistics
19. Tuesday, June 18
Quantum Statistics
20. Friday, June 21
Bose-Einstein Systems
21. Tuesday, June 25
Fermi Dirac Systems
22. Friday, June 28
Interacting Systems
23. Tuesday, July 2
Interacting Systems
24. Friday, July 5
cluster expansion
25. Tuesday, July 9
cluster expansion
26. Friday, July 12
Perturbation Theory
27. Tuesday, July 16
Review - preparation for the exam
28. Friday, July 19
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