Statistical Physics (Book)

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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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Author Lev Landau
Language English
Series Course of Theoretical Physics
Publisher Butterworth Heinemann
Publication Date 1982
Pages 669
ISBN-13 978-0-08-050346-2

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