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|title= | |title=Quantum Electrodynamics | ||
|image=[[File:Landau statistical physics.jpg]] | |image=[[File:Landau statistical physics.jpg]] | ||
|author=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau Lev Landau] | |author=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau Lev Landau] | ||
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|publisher=Butterworth Heinemann | |publisher=Butterworth Heinemann | ||
|publicationdate=1982 | |publicationdate=1982 | ||
|pages= | |pages=669 | ||
|isbn13=978-0-08- | |isbn13=978-0-08-050346-2 | ||
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Statistical physics is commonly introduced in physics education as the physics of thermodynamics in gases and solids. This is wrong. Firstly, the standard courses neglect what Landau does, deriving the macroscopic concepts from probabilistic (but ultimately deterministic) microscopic motion. Souriau takes this further. Statistical mechanics like classical mechanics is based on symplectic geometry, but with the added ingredient of measures. This geometric approach to statistical mechanics leads us eventually to statistical field theory and stochastic quantization with lattice statistical mechanics as a stepping stone to the continuum limit - this makes the connection to quantum field theory manifest. Statistical field theory and stochastic quantization were first coined and motivated by Parisi, who started to make the analogies between e.g. statistical correlation functions and quantum field theory propagators rigorous. | |||
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Statistical physics is commonly introduced in physics education as the physics of thermodynamics in gases and solids. This is wrong. Firstly, the standard courses neglect what Landau does, deriving the macroscopic concepts from probabilistic (but ultimately deterministic) microscopic motion | |||
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=== Applications === | === Applications === | ||
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| link = | | link = The Quantum Theory of Fields 1, Foundations (Book) | ||
| title = === | | title = === The Quantum Theory of Fields 1, Foundations === | ||
| desc = | | desc = Foundations of Quantum Field Theory by Steven Weinberg | ||
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| link = | | link = The Quantum Theory of Fields 2, Gauge Theory (Book) | ||
| title = === | | title = === Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations === | ||
| desc = | | desc = The Quantum Theory of Fields 2, Gauge Theory by Steven Weinberg. | ||
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| link = Quantum | | link = Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians (Book Series) | ||
| title = === Quantum | | title = === Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians === | ||
| desc = | | desc = Axiomatic classical and quantum field theory for mathematicians. | ||
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| link = | | link = Local Quantum Physics: Fields, Particles, Algebras (Book) | ||
| title = === | | title = === Local Quantum Physics: Fields, Particles, Algebras === | ||
| desc = | | desc = C*-algebraic quantum field theory by Rudolph Haag. | ||
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| cover = | | cover = Connes Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives cover.jpg | ||
| link = | | link = Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives (Book) | ||
| title = === | | title = === Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives === | ||
| desc = | | desc = Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives by Alain Connes and Matilde Marcolli. | ||
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| cover = | | cover = Costellorenormalization cover.jpg | ||
| link = | | link = Renormalization and Effective Field Theory (Book) | ||
| title = === | | title = === Renormalization and Effective Field Theory === | ||
| desc = | | desc = Renormalization and Effective Field theory by Kevin Costello | ||
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| link = | | link = Conformal Field Theory (Book) | ||
| title = === | | title = === Conformal Field Theory === | ||
| desc = | | desc = Conformal Field theory by Philippe Di Francesco, Pierre Mathieu, and David SΓ©nΓ©chal. | ||
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| link = Algebraic | | link = Vertex Algebras for Beginners (Book) | ||
| title = === Algebraic | | title = === Vertex Algebras for Beginners === | ||
| desc = Algebraic | | desc = Vertex Algebras for Beginners by Victor Kac. | ||
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| link = Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves (Book) | |||
| title = === Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves === | |||
| desc = Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves by Edward Frenkel and David Ben-Zvi. | |||
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