Statistical mechanics

• BBGKY hierarchy
• Boltzmann constant
• Boltzmann distribution
• Born-Green equation
• Brownian motion
• Canonical ensemble
• Chemical potential
• Classical critical points
• Compressibility equation
• Corresponding states
• Critical points
• Curie's law
• de Broglie thermal wavelength
• Energy equation
• Entropy
• Four-body function
• Gibbs distribution
• Gibbs ensemble
• Goldstone modes
• Grand canonical ensemble
• Internal energy
• Intermolecular pair potential
• Isothermal-isobaric ensemble
• Joule-Thomson effect
• Kirkwood superposition approximation
• Liouville's theorem
• Lyapunov exponents
• Maxwell velocity distribution
• Microcanonical ensemble
• Pair distribution function
• Partition function
• Phase space
• Phase transitions
• Pressure
• Pressure equation (aka. virial equation)
• Quantum statistics
• Radial distribution function
• Semi-grand ensembles
• Structure factor
• Surface tension
• Temperature
• Thermodynamic limit

Paradoxes

• Gibbs paradox
• Parrondo's paradox
• Zermelo’s paradox

General interest

• D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics 27 pp. 289 - 338 (1955)
• O. Penrose "Foundations of statistical mechanics", Reports on Progress in Physics 42 pp. 1937-2006 (1979)
• P. W. Anderson "More Is Different", Science 177 pp. 393-396 (1972)
• J. S. Rowlinson "The evolution of some statistical mechanical ideas", Molecular Physics 104 pp. 3399 - 3410 (2006)
• Elliott H. Lieb "Some problems in statistical mechanics that I would like to see solved", Physica A 263 pp. 491-499 (1999)
• Joel L. Lebowitz "Emergent Phenomena", Physik Journal 6 #9 pp. 41-46 (2007)

Information theory

• E. T. Jaynes "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics", Physical Review 106 pp. 620 - 630 (1957)
• E. T. Jaynes "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics. II", Physical Review 108 pp. 171 - 190 (1957)