Statistical Mechanics: Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Commentaries.- A Survey by the Editors.- I. Thermodynamic Limit for Coulomb Systems.- I. 1 Existence of Thermodynamics for Real Matter with Coulomb Forces.- I. 2 The Constitution of Matter: Existence of Thermodynamics for Systems Composed of Electrons and Nuclei.- II. Hard Sphere Virial Coefficients.- II. 1 Suppression at High Temperature of Effects Due to Statistics in the Second Virial Coefficient of a Real Gas.- II. 2 Calculation of Exchange Second Virial Coefficient of a Hard-Sphere Gas by Path Integrals.- III. Zeros of Partition Functions.- III. 1 Monomers and Dimers.- III. 2 Theory of Monomer-Dimer Systems.- III. 3 A Property of Zeros of the Partition Function for Ising Spin Systems.- III. 4 A General Lee-Yang Theorem for One-Component and Multicomponent Ferromagnets.- IV. Reflection Positivity.- IV. 1 Existence of Phase Transitions for Anisotropic Heisenberg Models.- IV. 2 Phase Transitions in Anisotropic Lattice Spin Systems.- IV. 3 Phase Transitions in Quantum Spin Systems with Isotropic and Nonisotropic Interactions.- IV. 4 Phase Transitions and Reflection Positivity. I. General Theory and Long Range Lattice Models.- IV. 5 Phase Transitions and Reflection Positivity. II. Lattice Systems with Short-Range and Coulomb Interactions.- IV. 6 Lattice Models for Liquid Crystals.- IV. 7 Existence of Neel Order in Some Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnets.- IV. 8 The XY Model Has Long-Range Order for all Spins and all Dimensions Greater than One.- V. Classical Thermodynamics.- V. 1 The Third Law of Thermodynamics and the Degeneracy of the Ground State for Lattice Systems.- V. 2 A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.- V. 3 A Fresh Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.- VI. Lattice Systems.- VI. 1 Properties of a Harmonic Crystal in a Stationary Nonequilibrium State.- VI. 2 The Statistical Mechanics of Anharmonic Lattices.- VI. 3 Time Evolution of Infinite Anharmonic Systems.- VI. 4 Lattice Systems with a Continuous Symmetry III. Low Temperature Asymptotic Expansion for the Plane Rotator Model.- VII. Miscellaneous.- VII. 1 The Finite Group Velocity of Quantum Spin Systems.- VII. 2 The Classical Limit of Quantum Spin Systems.- VII. 3 A Refinement of Simon's Correlation Inequality.- VII. 4 Fluxes, Laplacians, and Kasteleyn's Theorem.- Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb.- Publications of Elliott H. Lieb.