Download or read book Methods in Statistical Mechanics written by Osvaldo Civitarese and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a variety of techniques for tackling phenomena that are not amenable to the conventional approach based on the concept of probabilities. The methods described rely on the use of path integration, thermal Green functions, time-temperature propagators, Liouville operators, second quantization, and field correlators at finite density and temperature. Also exploring the statistical mechanics of unstable quantum systems, the book is intended as a supplementary or reference text for use in one-semester graduate courses on Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism, and Mathematical Methods in Physics.