Statistical Physics

This hands-on guide is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences and engineering. It assumes no prior kn...

The field of stochastic processes and Random Matrix Theory (RMT) has been a rapidly evolving subject during the last fifteen years. The continuous ...

An introductory textbook exploring the subject of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, with a relaxed and self-contained setting. Lagrangian and Ha...

Scientists are increasingly finding themselves engaged in research problems that cross the traditional disciplinary lines of physics, chemistry, bi...

An understanding of the behaviour of financial assets and the evolution of economies has never been as important as today. This book looks at these...

This edited book considers social systems as self-organizing structures that reproduce new structural elements endowed with certain functional conn...

This clear and pedagogical text delivers a concise overview of classical and quantum statistical physics. Essential Statistical Physics shows stude...

This is an introduction to the dynamics of fluids at small scales, the physical and mathematical underpinnings of Brownian motion, and the applicat...

Written by two specialists with over twenty-five years of experience in the field, this valuable text presents a wide range of topics within the gr...

This unique book gives a modern account of particle physics and gravity based on supersymmetry and supergravity, two of the most significant develo...

Energy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms. In trac...

Introducing graduate students and researchers to mathematical physics, this book discusses two recent developments: the demonstration that causalit...

Based around a series of real-life scenarios, this engaging introduction to statistical reasoning will teach you how to apply powerful statistical,...

This book collects lecture courses and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2010 on Quantum Theory: From Small to Large Scales. Fundamen...

Knowledge of the renormalization group and field theory is a key part of physics, and is essential in condensed matter and particle physics. Writte...

The science of networks represented a substantial change in the way we see natural and technological phenomena. Now we have a better understanding ...

This book deals with an important class of many-body systems: those where the interaction potential decays slowly for large inter-particle distance...

Statistical physics and thermodynamics describe the behaviour of systems on the macroscopic scale. Their methods are applicable to a wide range of ...

Brownian diffusion is the motion of one or more solute molecules in a sea of very many, much smaller solvent molecules. Its importance today owes m...

This book presents an up-to-date formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions covering different applications ranging from solid state physics, p...

Over the last decade new experimental tools and theoretical concepts are providing new insights into collective nonequilibrium behavior of quantum ...

Complex Systems in Finance and Econometrics is an authoritative reference to the basic tools and concepts of complexity and systems theory as appli...