Physics 817 - Adv Statistcl Physic

Spring
2020
01
3.00
Romain Vasseur
M W 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
47743
Hasbrouck Laboratory room 136
rvasseur@umass.edu
Phase transitions and mean field theory, critical exponents and universality. Ginzburg-Landau theory: fluctuations, Ginzburg criterion, upper/lower critical dimensions, Goldstone modes. Renormalization group: Foundations, Perturbative RG, epsilon expansion, Large N expansion. XY model: Topological defects, Coulomb gas and Kosterlitz?Thouless transition. Nonlinear sigma models. Random Systems. Introduction to conformal invariance. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 602
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