SM6 · Interacting systems
A 24-module path through sm6 · interacting systems, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Configuration Integral and the Interacting Partition Function
- The Mayer f-Function
- Mayer Cluster Expansion
- Cluster Integrals and Their Combinatorics
- Linked-Cluster Theorem
- Virial Expansion of the Equation of State
- Second Virial Coefficient
- Third and Higher Virial Coefficients
- Irreducible Cluster Integrals and the Virial Series
- Van der Waals Equation of State
- Van der Waals from the Virial Expansion
- Maxwell Construction and Coexistence
- Law of Corresponding States
- Mean-Field Theory
- Weiss Molecular Field Theory
- Bragg-Williams Approximation
- Self-Consistency Equation and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
- Mean-Field Critical Exponents
- Cumulant Expansion
- Cumulants and the Linked-Cluster Connection
- High-Temperature Expansion of Lattice Models
- Corrections to the Ideal Gas
- Pair Correlation Function and the Equation of State
- Quantum Corrections to the Second Virial Coefficient