PHY2315H: Advanced Statistical Mechanics

Topics may include: Collective modes, Importance of Symmetries and Dimensionality; Introduction to phase transitions and critical phenomena; Ginzburg-Landau theory, Mean-field theory, Critical Exponents; Goldstone modes and the lower critical dimension; Fluctuations and the upper critical dimension; Universality and self-similarity, Scaling hypothesis; Kadanoff's heuristic renormalization group and exponent identities; Perturbation theory, diagrammatic expansion; and Wilson's momentum space renormalization group, epsilon expansion, Wilson-Fisher fixed point.

Credit Value (FCE)

0.50

Campus(es)

St. George

Delivery Mode

In Class

School of Graduate Studies University of Toronto 63 St. George Street Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2Z9
Tel: 416-978-6614

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