Statistical mechanics is the application of probability theory, which includes mathematical tools for dealing with large populations, to the field of Mechanics, which is concerned with the motion of particles or objects when subjected to a force. It provides a framework for relating the microscopic properties of individual atoms and molecules to the macroscopic or bulk properties of materials that can be observed in every day life, therefore explaining thermodynamics as a natural result of statistics and mechanics (classical and quantum). In particular, it can be used to calculate the thermodynamic properties of bulk materials from the spectroscopic data of individual molecules.
Subcategories
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
- Equations of state (18 P)
- Partition functions (6 P)
- Statistical ensembles (7 P)
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E
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- Percolation theory (13 P)
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- Random matrices (20 P)
- Renormalization group (41 P)
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- Statistical physicists (17 P)
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- Statistical mechanics stubs (60 P)
Pages in category "Statistical mechanics"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 274 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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B
- BBGKY hierarchy
- Bennett acceptance ratio
- Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator
- Binder parameter
- BIO-LGCA
- Biology Monte Carlo method
- Blind signal separation
- Bogoliubov inner product
- Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem
- Boltzmann constant
- Boltzmann distribution
- Boltzmann equation
- Boltzmann Medal
- Boolean network
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- Brownian dynamics
- Brownian motion
C
- Cellular Potts model
- Chapman–Enskog theory
- Characteristic state function
- Chiral Potts model
- Cluster expansion
- Compressibility equation
- Configuration entropy
- Corner transfer matrix
- Correlation function (statistical mechanics)
- Correlation inequality
- Coulomb gap
- Coulomb gas
- Coupling constant
- Course of Theoretical Physics
- Critical dimension
- Cutoff (physics)
D
E
- Econophysics
- Effective field theory
- Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis
- Eight-vertex model
- Einstein relation (kinetic theory)
- Electronic entropy
- Energy-based model
- Ensemble average
- Entanglement distillation
- Entropy of mixing
- Entropy of network ensembles
- EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize
- Ergodic hypothesis
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G
H
K
- Kac ring
- Kahn–Kalai conjecture
- Kaniadakis statistics
- Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation
- KBD algorithm
- Kinetic exchange models of markets
- Kinetic Monte Carlo
- Kinetic scheme
- Kirkwood–Buff solution theory
- KMS state
- Knudsen paradox
- Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition
- Kovacs effect
- KPZ fixed point
- Kramers–Moyal expansion
- Kramers–Wannier duality
- KT (energy)
- KTHNY theory
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M
- Magnetic refrigeration
- Majumdar–Ghosh model
- Master equation
- Maximum entropy thermodynamics
- Maximum term method
- Mean-field theory
- Mean free path
- Mean free time
- Mean sojourn time
- Mean squared displacement
- Mean-field particle methods
- Metastate
- Microscopic reversibility
- Microstate (statistical mechanics)
- Mixing (physics)
- Molecular chaos
- Monte Carlo method
- Mori-Zwanzig formalism
- Morris method