In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic...

In statistical mechanics, a microstate is a specific configuration of a system that describes the precise positions and momenta of all the individual...

represent a particular statistical ensemble (which, in turn, corresponds to a particular free energy). The most common statistical ensembles have named...

Quantum statistical mechanics is statistical mechanics applied to quantum mechanical systems. In quantum mechanics a statistical ensemble (probability...

A list of notable textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, arranged by category and date. Fermi, Enrico (1956). Thermodynamics (New ed.)...

Mechanics (from Ancient Greek μηχανική (mēkhanikḗ) 'of machines') is the area of physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion...

introduced the concept of statistical disorder and probability distributions into a new field of thermodynamics, called statistical mechanics, and found the link...

In statistical mechanics, multiplicity (also called statistical weight) refers to the number of microstates corresponding to a particular macrostate of...

In statistical mechanics, the correlation function is a measure of the order in a system, as characterized by a mathematical correlation function. Correlation...

system might be in. In other words, a statistical ensemble is a set of systems of particles used in statistical mechanics to describe a single system. The...

Carlo in statistical physics refers to the application of the Monte Carlo method to problems in statistical physics, or statistical mechanics. The general...

which gives another interpretation for the limit behavior. In statistical mechanics, the softargmax function is known as the Boltzmann distribution...

include classical mechanics; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; electromagnetism and photonics; relativity; quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and...

the kelvin has been defined through particle kinetic theory, and statistical mechanics. In the International System of Units (SI), the magnitude of the...

the statistical mechanics of black-body radiation led to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics, the effort to understand the statistical mechanics...

have been extended to other areas of physics, such as statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics, classical field theory, and quantum field theory. Moreover...

with quantum mechanics, gravitational singularities, and philosophical implications of cosmology are also investigated. Statistical mechanics: Relationship...

whether the universal or specific gas constant is being used. In statistical mechanics, the following molecular equation (i.e. the ideal gas law in its...

as a measure of the statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant. Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars...

In statistical mechanics, the transfer-matrix method is a mathematical technique which is used to write the partition function into a simpler form. It...

formulations of thermodynamics emerged. Statistical thermodynamics, or statistical mechanics, concerns itself with statistical predictions of the collective motion...

theory, Planck resorted to using the then-controversial theory of statistical mechanics, which he described as "an act of desperation". One of his new boundary...

used to represent initial beliefs about an uncertain parameter, in statistical mechanics the a priori probability is used to describe the initial state of...

physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution...

or impossible. In statistical mechanics, entropy is formulated as a statistical property using probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective...

Relativistic mechanics (i.e. including the special and general theories of relativity), for bodies whose speed is close to the speed of light. Statistical mechanics...

fixed axis dynamics of systems of particles central forces and celestial mechanics three-dimensional particle dynamics Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism...

(heat) entropy on the microscopic level are found in statistical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. For most of the 20th century, textbooks tended to...

Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published in March 1902, is a work of scientific literature by Josiah Willard Gibbs which is considered...

and statistical mechanics were discovered. At the beginning of the 20th century, physics was transformed by the discoveries of quantum mechanics, relativity...