Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The laws of thermodynamics
- 2 Thermodynamic relations
- 3 The ensemble theory
- 4 System Hamiltonians
- 5 The density matrix
- 6 The cluster variation method
- 7 Infinite-series representations of correlation functions
- 8 The extended mean-field approximation
- 9 The exact Ising lattice identities
- 10 Propagation of short range order
- 11 Phase transition of the two-dimensional Ising model
- Appendix 1 The gamma function
- Appendix 2 The critical exponent in the tetrahedron approximation
- Appendix 3 Programming organization of the cluster variation method
- Appendix 4 A unitary transformation applied to the Hubbard Hamiltonian
- Appendix 5 Exact Ising identities on the diamond lattice
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The density matrix
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The laws of thermodynamics
- 2 Thermodynamic relations
- 3 The ensemble theory
- 4 System Hamiltonians
- 5 The density matrix
- 6 The cluster variation method
- 7 Infinite-series representations of correlation functions
- 8 The extended mean-field approximation
- 9 The exact Ising lattice identities
- 10 Propagation of short range order
- 11 Phase transition of the two-dimensional Ising model
- Appendix 1 The gamma function
- Appendix 2 The critical exponent in the tetrahedron approximation
- Appendix 3 Programming organization of the cluster variation method
- Appendix 4 A unitary transformation applied to the Hubbard Hamiltonian
- Appendix 5 Exact Ising identities on the diamond lattice
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Methods of Statistical Physics , pp. 106 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002