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Elements of Quantum Statistical Theory

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Lectures on Quantum Statistics

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Quantum statistics is a many body theory describing macroscopic matter. Let us first summarize concepts of classical many body theory and subsequently concepts of many body quantum theory, just what we need in the following. After this we will proceed to the simplest quantum statistical ensembles.

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    Werner Ebeling

  2. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Thorsten Pöschel

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Ebeling, W., Pöschel, T. (2019). Elements of Quantum Statistical Theory. In: Lectures on Quantum Statistics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 953. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05734-3_2

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