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Statistical Physics -II (PH51023, PH40211)
Autumn 2023-24
About the Course
This is an advanced course on Statistical Physics meant for the Master students in Physics at IIT Kharagpur. The suggested syllabus of this course can be found here.Suggested References
- Kerson Huang
- Pathria and Beale
- N. Goldenfeld
- G. Mussardo
- J. Zinn-Justin
- J. K. Bhattacharjee
- M. Kardar
- Landau Lifshitz
- Feynman
- F. Rief
- Lecture notes by David Tong
Lecturenotes:
Lecture-notes-1: A review of Basic thermodynamics and basic stat-mech
Lecture-notes-2: 1D Ising model, 1D Potts model, Mean Field theory, Landau-Ginzburg theory. [Mathematica file]
Lecture-notes-3: Path-Integrals, thermal partition function from path-integrals : harmonic oscillator example.
Lecture-notes-4: Qualitative discussion on RG flows.
Lecture-notes-5: Monte Carlo Simulation of Ising Model.
Lecture-notes-6: Superfluids.
Lecture-notes-7: Stochastic processes.
Problem-sets:
To appear.Assignments
To appear.Supplementary material
- Some classic papers on Renormalization: Wilson-Kogut, Polchinski.