Springer Series in Solid State Sciences212 Physics of Entropy

1. Introduction.- Part I: What entropy is.- 2. De¿nition of Entropy.- 3. Examples of phenomena caused by entropy.- Part II: Frustration and Entropy.- 4. Ground state degeneracy in frustrated systems with discrete variables.- 5. Ordering in frustrated systems of continuous variables.- 6. Quantum e¿ects.- Part III Entropy in non-equilibrium system.- 7. Entropy in non-equilibrium system.- Index.