Microcanonical Ensemble: A statistical ensemble that represents an isolated system with fixed energy, volume, and number of particles. Canonical Ensemble: A statistical ensemble that represents a ...

probability and statistical methods of studying macroscopic systems; atomic basis of the laws of thermodynamics and microscopic definitions of thermodynamics quantities using the method of ensembles; ...

Review of thermodynamics and ensembles, ideal gases, quantum statistics, imperfect classical gases, magnetic models, phase transitions and critical phenomena, Landau theory, renormalization group ...