Statistical physics : fundamentals and application to condensed matter : with lectures, problems and solutions / Hung T. Diep.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamentals of Statistical Physics:
1. Basic Concepts and Tools in Statistical Physics;
2. Isolated Systems: Micro-Canonical Description;
3. Systems at a Constant Temperature: Canonical Description; 4. Open Systems at Constant Temperature: Grand-Canonical Description;
5. Free Fermi Gas;
6. Free Boson Gas;
7. Systems of Interacting Particles: Method of Second Quantization;
Application to Condensed Matter:
8. Symmetry in Crystalline Solids;
9. Interacting Atoms in Crystals: Phonons;
10. Systems of Interacting Electrons - Fermi Liquids;
11. Electrons in Crystalline Solids: Energy Bands;
12. Systems of Interacting Spins: Magnons;
13. Systems of Interacting Spins: Phase Transitions;
14. Superconductivity;
15. Transport in Metals and Semiconductors;
Solutions of Problems:
Solutions of Problems of Part 1;
Solutions of Problems of Part 2;
Appendices:
Appendix A: Mathematical Complements and Table of Constants;
Appendix B: Sommerfeld's Expansion at Low Temperatures; Appendix C: Origin of the Heisenberg Model;
Appendix D: Hubbard Model: Superexchange;
Appendix E: Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transition;
Appendix F: Low- and High-Temperature Expansions of the Ising Model.

The aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals of statistical physics and its application to condensed matter.