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== Lecture 5: Noninteracting bosons in equilibrium == | == Lecture 5: Noninteracting bosons in equilibrium == | ||
* Example: Phonons in solids. | |||
== Lecture 6: Bose-Einstein condensation == | == Lecture 6: Bose-Einstein condensation == | ||
Revision as of 18:27, 26 December 2010
Lecture 1: Faliure of classical statistical mechanics: Black-body radiation
Lecture 2: Mixed states in quantum mechanics and density operator
Lecture 3: Many-particle wave functions and Hilbert space
Lecture 4: Ensembles and partition function for systems in equilibrium
- Example: Partition function for two bosons and two fermions.
- Example: "Effective force" between noninteracting bosons and fermions due to Pauli principle.
Lecture 5: Noninteracting bosons in equilibrium
- Example: Phonons in solids.
Lecture 6: Bose-Einstein condensation
Lecture 7: Noninteracting fermions in equilibrium
- Example: Pressure of ideal Fermi vs. ideal Bose gas.
- Example: Heat capacity of electrons in solids.
- Example: Pauli paramagnetism.
- Example: Landau diamagnetism.
- Example: Neutron stars.
