Methods in Statistical Mechanics by Osvaldo Civitarese & Manuel Gadella

Author:Osvaldo Civitarese & Manuel Gadella
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030536589
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

4. Path Integrals and Applications

Osvaldo Civitarese1 and Manuel Gadella2

(1)Department of Physics, University of La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

(2)Department of Theoretical Physics, Atomic Physics and Optics, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Osvaldo Civitarese

Email: [email protected]

In this chapter, we are presenting the basic concepts related to the description of statistical mechanics in terms of amplitudes, rather than probabilities as done in the previous chapters. The proper tool for the purpose of the discussion is the path integral formulation due to Feynman [20–22].

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