Quantum Theory of Collective Phenomena (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials)

This study provides a systematic approach to the quantum theory of collective phenomena, based principally on the model of infinite systems. The author sets the theory within the framework of modern statistical mechanics, formulating it in rigorous, though relatively simple, mathematical terms. This approach leads to a generalized form of statistical thermodynamics, and to useful characterizations of such collective phenomena as phase transitions, irreversibility, and metastability, going beyond the scope of traditional statistical mechanics of finite systems.Sewell, G. L. is the author of 'Quantum Theory of Collective Phenomena (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials)', published 1986 under ISBN 9780198513711 and ISBN 0198513712.