Journey through Statistical Physics

From the reviews: “The present papers are … labelled as ‘statistical physics’ and range from 1976 to 2008. … The papers by Jürg Fröhlich offer an excellent opportunity to acquire a global view of certain directions of mathematical physics. … Fröhlich’s writing should be a valuable guide to the topics treated; he writes detailed and comprehensive reports on his research with numerous references to the literature. … researchers, deeply dedicated to this field, will be ready to purchase the volume for personal use.” (Stig Stenholm, Contemporary Physics, January, 2010)“This is a second book in which selected papers by Jürg Fröhlich with different coauthors are collected. … the present book is composed of papers on statistical physics of many body systems, mainly in equilibrium. … This book will be very useful and valuable for researchers as well as for students because it has put together and comments important papers by Jürg Fröhlich, who is one of the contemporarily leading experts.” (K.-E. Hellwig, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1169, 2009)

• Introduction. - Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. - Phase Transitions and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking. - Hard Problems in One and Two Dimensions. - Critical Phenomena: Random Walks and Conformal Field Theory. - Disordered Systems: From Anderson Localization to Spin Glasses. - When Quantum Mechanics Matters: Magnetism, Bose Gases and Quantum Hall Effect