Researchers from The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel computational framework that addresses a longstanding challenge in statistical physics.

I will contrast the two main approaches to the foundations of statistical mechanics: the individualist (Boltzmannian) approach and the ensemblist approach (associated with Gibbs). I will indicate the ...

THERE are a number of co-operative phenomena associated With specific heat singularities for which the technical mathematical problems are formally similar. These include the Ising model of a ...

PROF. R. H. FOWLER, with the able assistance of Dr. E. A. Guggenheim, has produced a book which will serve in many respects as a third edition of his ''Statistical Mechanics", but which does not ...

A problem that has long been considered impossible to solve and that now, thanks to a breakthrough, can be calculated quickly ...

In this new work, statistical mechanics is used to understand how different mathematical models "compete" when trying to explain a system. This matters because many scientific fields rely on ...

The RSC SMTG is interested in a range of problems, covering the properties of molecules and the behaviour of macroscopic matter and is an interdisciplinary enterprise, embracing synthetic chemistry, ...

Advanced science textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity, but a purported image showing the introductory sentences from one such work is downright gloomy: This chapter on ...