Statistical Physics B 1100-4SPB

1. Recap of ensemble theory and ideal systems

2. Statistical mechanics of classical interacting systems: Mayer expansion, pair correlation function, structure factor, Ornstein-Zernike relation, closure relations, hard-sphere fluids.

3. Systems in an external potential, inhomogeneous systems, density functional theory.

4. Phase behaviour, phase diagrams, spinodal, binodal.

5. Effective interactions

6. Foundations of linear irreversible thermodynamics, minimum entropy production principle, Onsager reciprocity, Curie principle.

7. Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, linear response theory, self-diffusion and collective diffusion.

8. Elements of kinetic theory, H theorem, hydrodynamic limit.