Advanced Statistical Mechanics
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- 5093
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- Calculation of observables from path integrals
- Calculation of spectra from perturbation theory
- Characterizing the Structure of Liquids
- Classical linear response theory
- Classical microstates, Newtonian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics
- Classical virial theorem; Legendre transforms; the canonical ensemble
- Discretized and Continuous Path Integrals
- Distribution Function Theory
- Estimators, energy fluctuations, the isothermal-isobaric ensemble
- Expansion about the classical path and stationary phase
- Free-energy calculations
- Fundamentals of quantum statistical mechanics
- Liouville's Theorem, non-Hamiltonian systems, the microcanonical ensemble
- Perturbation theory and the van der Waals equation
- Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum linear response theory
- Quantum time-dependent perturbation theory
- The Grand Canonical Ensemble
- The Langevin and Generalized Langevin equations