Sentence examples for in statistical mechanics from inspiring English sources

To complete the circle, Ludwig von Boltzmann, a pioneer in statistical mechanics, gave a public lecture in Leipzig in 1905, proclaiming that Darwinian evolution was a statistical mechanical manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics.

Dr. Ehrenfest, a friend of Einstein's, made major contributions in statistical mechanics and its relation to quantum mechanics.

The center is now named the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems.

Around this time, Dr. Rosenbluth joined a small group of scientists who developed the Monte Carlo simulation, now a standard research tool in statistical mechanics, chemistry, biochemistry and other fields.

His early work in statistical mechanics attracted the attention of the Dutch chemist Peter Debye, under whose direction Onsager studied at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (1926 28).

Systems in statistical mechanics are all measure preserving.

On the other hand, this cannot be the last word because UIRs undoubtedly do real work in physics, e.g. in quantum statistical mechanics (see Ruetsche 2003) and in particular when it comes to spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Clark (1987) draws on how we use the phase space measure μ to govern our expectations about the behaviour of Bernoulli and mixing systems in classical statistical mechanics, and argues (in effect) that this is an objective probability function despite the deterministic underlying physics.

Wallace (2011) and Fraser (2011) discuss what the successful application of renormalization methods in quantum statistical mechanics means for their role in QFT, reaching very different conclusions.

The probability measure μ is the abstract counterpart in ergodic theory to the density function in classical statistical mechanics.

However, it is important to make the distinction between criticality in the statistical mechanics sense (i.e. defined in terms of a second-order phase transition in a system with infinite degrees of freedom) and criticality in the mathematical sense (i.e. defined in terms of a bifurcation in a low-dimensional mean field model) such as used in our work.