Statistical and Matter Physics

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Important Note: This page is closely related to PROBABILITY, CHAOS AND FRACTALS in the recommended reading lists in Mathematics, they should therefore be consulted together.

Chaos and scale invariance

  • Manfred Schroeder - Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws. Minutes from an Infinite Paradise

  • Grigory I. Barenblatt - Scaling (2003)

  • Richard N. Henriksen - Scale Invariance. self-similarity of the Physical World (2015)

Case and probability in Physics

  • E. T. Jaynes, G. Larry Bretthorst - Probability theory the logic of science

  • Vinay Ambegaokar - Reasoning About Luck: Probability and Its Uses in Physics (2017)

  • Kurt Jacobs - Stochastic Processes for Physicists: Understanding Noisy Systems

  • Don S. Lemons - An Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Physics

  • Guido Boffetta, Angelo Vulpiani - Probability in Physics. an introduction

Introduction to Statistical Physics

  • Stephen J. Blundell, Katherine M. Blundell - Concepts in Thermal Physics (2009)

  • James P. Sethna - Statistical mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity

  • Malcolm P. Kennett - Essential Statistical Physics (2020)

  • Lorenzo Maccone, Luca Salasnich - Modern physics: quantum mechanics, chaos and complex systems

  • Roberto Piazza - Notes on statistical physics (with some agreement) (2011)

Other introductions to statistical physics

  • Ralph Baierlein - Thermal Physics

  • Roger Bowley, Mariana Sanchez - Introductory statistical mechanics

  • Massimo Falcioni, Angelo Vulpiani - Elementary Statistical Mechanics. Fundamentals- (2015)

Physics Statistics and Computers

  • Giovanni Battimelli, Giovanni Ciccotti, Pietro Greco - Computer meets theoretical physics. the new frontier of molecular simulation (2020)

  • Kurt Binder,Dieter W. Heermann - Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics

  • Werner Krauth - Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations (2006)

  • Bellur S. Chandraseckhar - Why things are the way they are trad.it Why glass is transparent

  • Stephen J. Blundell - Superconductivity transl.it. superconductivity

  • Robert B. Laughlin - A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down transl.it. A Different Universe

  • Anthony Legget - The Problems of Physics trad.en The problems of physics

  • Giorgio Careri - Order and disorder in matter

  • Philip W. Anderson - More is Different science, New Series, Vol. 177, No. 4047. (Aug. 4, 1972), pp. 393-396 online: https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72more_is_different.pdf

  • Philip W. Anderson - More And Different: Notes From A Thoughtful Curmudgeon

  • Alan Holden - The Nature of solids

  • Christopher Hall - Materials. A very short introduction (OUP VSI)

  • J. E. Gordon - The New Science of Strong Materials. or Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor

  • Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, Jacques Badoz - Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery

  • Roberto Piazza - The stuff of dreams. peek into a world of fluffy things (2010)

Condensed states of matter: insights

  • David L. Goodstein - States of matter (1975)

  • J. R. Hook, H. E. Hall - Solid state physics

  • Steven H. Simon - The Oxford Solid State Basics

  • Roderich Moessner, Joel E. Moore - Topological Phases of Matter (2021)

  • Tudor D. Stanescu - Introduction to Topological Quantum Matter & Quantum Computation (2020)

Materials Science

  • Safa Kasap - Principles of Electronic Materials & Devices (2018)

  • William D. Callister, Jr., David G. Rethwish - Materials Science and Engineering An Introduction (2018)

Optics

  • Ian Kenyon - The Light Fantastic. A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics