by Lee Siu-keung. / Parallel title in Chinese. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-164). / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.5 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Path Integrals / Chapter 2.1 --- Path´ؤIntegral Approach to Quantum Mechanics --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Path´ؤIntegral Approach to Statistical Mechanics --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3 --- Variational Principle --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4 --- "Variational Method Proposed by Giachetti and Tognetti, and by Feynman and Kleinert" / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Effective Classical Partition Function --- p.24 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Particle Distribution Function From Effective Classical Potential --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Systematic Perturbation Corrections to the Variational Approximation Proposed in Section2.4 / Chapter 3.1 --- Formalism / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Free Energy --- p.38 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Particle Distribution Function --- p.49 / Chapter 3.2 --- Second Order Correction to Free Energy --- p.53 / Chapter 3.3 --- First Order Correction to Particle Distribution Function --- p.60 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Examples and Results / Chapter 4.1 --- Quartic Anharmonic Oscillator / Chapter 4.1.1 --- "Free Energy, Internal Energy and Specific Heat" --- p.69 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Particle Distribution Function --- p.87 / Chapter 4.2 --- Symmetric Double-well Potential / Chapter 4.2.1 --- "Free Energy, Internal Energy and Specific Heat" --- p.88 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Particle Distribution Function --- p.106 / Chapter 4.3 --- Quartic-cubic Anharmonic Potential / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Free Energy --- p.108 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Particle Distribution Function --- p.115 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Application to the One-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau Model / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.120 / Chapter 5.2 --- Exact Partition Function and Free Energy Per Unit Length --- p.123 / Chapter 5.3 --- Zeroth Order Approximation to Free Energy Per Unit Length --- p.126 / Chapter 5.4 --- Exact Specific Heat --- p.133 / Chapter 5.5 --- Zeroth Order Approximation to Specific Heat --- p.139 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.141 / Chapter Appendix I --- Functional Calculus - Differentiation --- p.145 / Chapter Appendix II --- Evaluation of Feynman Propagator Δf(τ) --- p.147 / Chapter Appendix III --- Vanishing of the First Order Correction-βf1 --- p.150 / Chapter Appendix IV --- Numerical Method for the Energy Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of the One-dimensional Schroedinger Equation with ax2 + bx4 Potential --- p.153 / Chapter Appendix V --- Numerical Integrations with imaginary Ω --- p.158 / References --- p.162 / Figures --- p.165
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_319001 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Contributors | Lee, Siu-keung., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Physics. |
| Publisher | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, [1], 167 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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