Random Interactions
Mini-Course on Phase Transitions and Ordering (7 lectures with intervening interactive tutorials)
by Prof. Mustansir Barma (TCIS, TIFR Hyderabad)
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at A304
at A304
Description |
Tutorials to be announced in class OUTLINE of LECTURES Ordered Phases and Phase Transitions: Phenomenology; Definitions; Models and Mappings Mean Field Theory: Variational basis; Ornstein-Zernike Theory; Ginzburg Criterion General Results on Ordering: Lower critical dimension; Peierls proof of ordering; Mermin-Wagner result on absence of ordering Critical Phenomena: Fluctuations and their growth; Scaling; Universality Renormalization Group: Basic idea; Block spins; Real-space RG Time-dependent properties: Glauber and Kawasaki dynamics; Phase ordering kinetics Ordered Phases out of Equilibrium: Nonequilibrium steady states and phase transitions; Fluctuation-dominated order |