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| Publications [#361583] of Patrick Charbonneau
Papers Published
- Charbonneau, P, Lecture Notes on the Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems
(May, 2017)
(last updated on 2026/01/19)
Abstract:
This material complements David Chandler's Introduction to Modern Statistical
Mechanics (Oxford University Press, 1987) in a graduate-level, one-semester
course I teach in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University. Students
enter this course with some knowledge of statistical thermodynamics and quantum
mechanics, usually acquired from undergraduate physical chemistry at the level
of D. A. McQuarrie & J. D. Simon's Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach
(University Science Books, 1997). These notes, which introduce students to a
modern treatment of glassiness and to the replica method, build on the material
and problems contained in the eight chapters of Chandler's textbook.
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