Series Editor
Professor Davide Cassi (University of Parma, Italy)
Email: davide.cassi@fis.unipr.it
Aims and Scope
Statistical mechanics nowadays has come far beyond its original purpose of relating the thermodynamic properties of matter to microscopic dynamics. Its main ideas and methods have been extended to a huge variety of fields and disciplines, making it a truly cross-disciplinary science. The point of view of modern statistical mechanics, indeed, consists in focusing on collective properties of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, neglecting the details of their single components. In such a way, it is possible to deduce very general and universal laws, applying to very different situations.
The aim of this series is to cover the most interesting topics of contemporary statistical mechanics, as well as its main areas of application, with very readable books, which are at once rigorous and written in didactic style.
The first fourteen volumes were published between 1985 and 2000 with Prof. Mario Rasetti (Politechnico di Torino as the series editor).
Published titles
Vol. 1
Integrable Systems in Statistical Mechanics
edited by G D'Ariano, A Montorsi & M Rasetti
Vol. 2
Modern Methods in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
by M Rasetti
Vol. 4
Thermodynamics of Complex Systems
An Introduction to Ecophysics
by L Sertorio
Vol. 5
Potts Models and Related Problems in Statistical Mechanics
by P Martin
Vol. 6
New Problems, Methods and Techniques in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics
edited by M G Rasetti
Vol. 7
The Hubbard Model
Recent Results
edited by M Rasetti
Vol. 8
Statistical Thermodynamics and Stochastic Theory of Nonequilibrium Systems
by W Ebeling & I M Sokolov
Vol. 9
Disorder and Competition in Soluble Lattice Models
by W F Wreszinski & S R A Salinas
Vol. 10
Introduction to Stochastic Processes and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, An
by H S Wio
Vol. 12
Quantum Many-Body Systems in One Dimension
by Z N C Ha
Vol. 14
Statistical Physics on the Eve of the 21st Century
In Honour of J B McGuire on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
edited by M T Batchelor & L T Wille
Vol. 15
Lattice Statistics and Mathematical Physics
Festschrift Dedicated to Professor Fa-Yueh Wu on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday
Proceedings of APCTP-NANKAI Joint Symposium
edited by J H H Perk & M-L Ge
Vol. 16
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Heterogeneous Systems
by Signe Kjelstrup & Dick Bedeaux
Vol. 17
Chaos
From Simple Models to Complex Systems
by Massimo Cencini, Fabio Cecconi & Angelo Vulpiani
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