Physics 716 Fall 2017 Reference Page
Statistical Mechanics II
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| Typically Offered | Occasional |
|---|---|
| Students | Graduate, advanced |
| Credits | 3.00 |
Symmetries and symmetry breaking, phase transitions, mean field theory, critical exponents, scaling hypothesis, renormalization group, diagrammatic expansion, epsilon-expansion, exact solution of the 2d Ising model. Boltzman kinetic equation, H-theorem, Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations, Born-Markov master equation, Lindblad superoperators, classical and quantum noise, theory of amplifiers.
Prerequisites: PHYSICS 715 and 731
Lecture
| Sec | Instructor | Time | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Lev Ioffe | MW 04:00 pm - 05:15 pm | 2104 Chamberlin |
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