Statistical Physics
2.1 Laws of thermodynamics
2.2 Consequences from the existence of entropy
2.4 Thermodynamics in static electric and magnetic fields
3.1The classical limit and ideal gas equation of state
3.2 Boltzmann transport equation and H-theorem
4.1 Concept of the Gibbsian ensemble
4.2.1 Information entropy4.4 Grandcanonical ensemble
4.4.1 Partition function and grandcanonical potential
4.4.2 Quantum statistics of free particles
4.4.3 Bose-Einstein distribution function
4.4.4 Fermi-Dirac distribution function
4.4.5 Ensemble equivalence in the thermodynamic limit
5.1 photons, phonons & magnons
5.1.1 Photons and Planck’s black body radiation law
5.1.2 Atomic Vibrations in Solids: phonons
5.1.3 Equipartition theorem
5.1.4 Spin waves and magnons
5.3 Magnetic model systems
5.3.1 Paramagnetism
5.3.2 Ising chain, spin-spin correlation and correlation length
5.3.3 Mean-field theory
5.3.4 Low and high-temperature expansions
5.4 Phase transitions
5.4.1Phase diagrams
5.4.2 Landau theory
5.4.3 Critical phenomena