Introduction
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Introduction
- Physics so far
- Deterministic: Newton's law of motion; Maxwell's equation
- Single/Few body system
- Macroscopic systems
dimension of freedom:
(HUGE)
- Thermodynamics
phenomenological approach to equilibrium properties of macroscopic system
- Statistical Mechanics
a probabilistic approach
- Temperature
Large
- Phase transition
NO real phase transition when N is finite
Early Days of Quantum Mechanics
- 1900 Planck
- 1907 Einstein (固体热容量)
- 1912 Debye (固体热容量)
- 1925 Einstein & Bose
- 1926 Fermi & Dirac
- 1926 Fowler
white dwarf - 1927 Sommerfeld
- 临界现象 & Field Theory
- 1950 - 1960 Universality
- 1966 Kandanoff
- 1971 Wilson
- Recent Quantum Many-Body System
Thermalization