PH51023: Statistical Physics-Ii
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| Course name | Statistical Physics-Ii | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Physics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-0-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Autumn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Syllabus
Syllabus mentioned in ERP
Landau theory of phase transition - beyond mean-field; Gaussian fluctuation and Ginzburg criterion, time dependent GL theory, Gross-Pitaevskii equation, scaling and universality, universality classes renormalization, fixed point and RG flow. Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena -Superfluidity: mean-field theory, condensate wave function, ODLRO, Landau s quasiparticle picture, time dependent GL equation, quantum coherence, superfluid flow, quantization of circulation, Hess-Fairbank effect, vortices, concept of gauge symmetry breaking. Magnetic exchange: exchange interaction, spin models, exact solutions in special cases, classical vs quantum spin models, Mermin-Wagner theorem, numerical methods, frustrated spin systems. Noise and stochastic processes, thermal fluctuation, Nyquist noise, Brownian motion, diffusion, Einstein relation, fluctuation and dissipation. Probability and distribution, Gaussian and Poisson distribution, central limit theorem, shot noise.
Concepts taught in class
Student Opinion
How to Crack the Paper
Classroom resources
Additional Resources
Time Table
| Day | 8:00-8:55 am | 9:00-9:55 am | 10:00-10:55 am | 11:00-11:55 am | 12:00-12:55 pm | 2:00-2:55 pm | 3:00-3:55 pm | 4:00-4:55 pm | 5:00-5:55 pm | |
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| Monday | C231 | |||||||||
| Tuesday | C231 | C231 | ||||||||
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