4020120124 Critical Phenomena
Digital- & Präsenz-basierter Kurs
- classroom language
- DE
- aims
- Understanding of the renormalization group;
Acquaintance with elementary field-theoretic methods
- requirements
- Acquaintance with statistical physics
- structure / topics / contents
- -phenomenology of phase transitions
-lattice models: Ising model, Heisenberg model
- exactly solvable models, mean-field
approximation
- Ginzburg-Landau theory
- real space renormalization group
- perturbation theory, field theoretic methods
- epsilon-expansion
- Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition
- out of equilibrium phenomena
- assigned modules
-
P22.2
P22
P23.1
- amount, credit points; Exam / major course assessment
- 3 SWS, 5 SP/ECTS (Arbeitsanteil im Modul für diese Lehrveranstaltung, nicht verbindlich)
Credit points are granted for solving the
example sheets. Modul P22.2:
Oral or written exam (depending on the number of
participants.)
- contact
- Martin Hasenbusch, Newtonstr. 15 Raum 1'419
- literature
-
John Cardy. Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics. Cambridge University Press
Igor Herbut. A Modern Approach to Critical Phenomena. Cambridge University Press
Daniel J. Amit and Victor Martin-Mayor. Field Theory, the Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena. World Scientific
M. Le Bellac. Quantum and Statistical Field Theory. Oxford University Press
J. Zinn-Justin. Quantum Field Theory and Critical Phenomena. Oxford University Press