PHYS.6210 Advanced Statistical Mechanics

Id: 042294 Credits: 3-3

Description

The aim of this elective course is to introduce graduate students to advanced concepts in collective phenomena, phase transitions, and renormalization group techniques. The course assumes familiarity with basic concepts of statistical physics such as kinetic theory of gases, partition functions, classical and quantum gases.

Prerequisites

PHYS.5210 Statistical Thermodynamics, and PHYS.6110 Classical Mechanics, and PHYS.6165 Graduate Quantum Mechanics, or special permission from the instructor.

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