Statistical Physics, Second Revised and Enlarged Edition

Index

Activation energy 151 , 152
Adiabaticdemagnetization 30–4, 32
Averaging postulate 3–4

βand temperature 18–9, 61

Beta-brass 127–8, 19 7

Big bang 175–6

Blackbody radiation 104–7, 17 6

Blackholes 177, 180

Boltzmann distribution 13,16–17,115–6, 132

Boltzmannfactor 22, 117 , 133 ,

152 , 175

Bose–Einstein condensation 99–101, 109

Bose–Einsteingases 97–110

Bose–Einstein(BE)statistics

59–60,97–9,142–4

Bose temperature 99

Bosons 53 ,56–7, 104 ,129–31

Chemicalequilibrium 148–9

Chemicalpotential 23, 137–9,

146 –9

Chemical reactions 146–52, 198

Classical limit 39,57–8,63–5, 108 , 143

Classical statistics 16 5 – 6

Clausius–Clapeyron equation 93–4, 102

CMN (cerium magnesium nitrate) 30–6

Cold atoms 10 9

Configuration integral 167

Coolingmethods 30–4, 94, 109, 112, 16 3

Cooperpairs 170, 172

Countingmicrostates 6–8, 14,

55 – 8

Counting problems 181–2, 184– 5

Criticalexponents 127

Curie’s law 34–6, 35 , 125 , 193

Curie temperature,TTTC 1 22–3, 12 5 –7

Curie-Weiss law 125 –7

Debye model of lattice vibrations 108,108, 196

Degeneracyparameter 6 5 , 83–4, 87, 98- 9

Density ofstates

basicideas 43–8

for BEgas 98–9

for electrons in metals 91–2, 92

for FDgas 8 5 –6, 88–9 0

for helium gas 48–9

in restricted geometry 46-7

withinteractions157,157- 8

for photons 10 5

Diatomicgases 40, 73–81

Dispersion relation 48, 107–8,

15 6–7, 157 , 15 9, 177- 8

Distinguishable particles 13–24, 11 5 – 6

Distribution

definition 4– 6

determination of,seeStatisticalmethod

forgases 51– 2

Distribution function 5 2, 5 8–61

see alsoBose–Einstein statistics; Fermi–Dirac

statistics; Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics

Einstein model of vibrations in a solid 40, 108

Electrons in metals 84, 91–2, 154–8

Energy scales 2 6 , 39, 78–8 1

Entropy,S

of BEgas 113– 4

of FDgas 90–1, 113– 4

of ferromagnet 124– 5 , 125

ofisotopes 111– 2

of MB gas 6 8–9, 113– 4

ofoscillators 38

of superconductor 171

of two-stateparticles 28, 29

ofvacancies 11 6 – 7

Entropy expression for gases 69, 14 5 – 6

Entropy, statisticaldefinition 10–11, 20–1,

111–4, 14 0

Equation ofstate 70–1, 77,

166 – 8

Equipartition of energy 39, 6 7, 78– 9

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