# PHY2315H S SPECIALIZED Advanced Statistical Mechanics

## Official description

1. Collective modes, Importance of Symmetries and Dimensionality
2. Introduction to phase transitions and critical phenomena
3. Ginzburg-Landau theory, Mean-field theory, Critical Exponents
4. Goldstone modes and the lower critical dimension
5. Fluctuations and the upper critical dimension
6. Universality and self-similarity, Scaling hypothesis
7. Kadanoff's heuristic renormalization group and exponent identities
8. Perturbation theory, diagrammatic expansion
9. Wilson's momentum space renormalization group, epsilon expansion,

Wilson-Fisher fixed point

Textbook
                            ['Reference Books:', 'N. Goldenfield, Lectures on Phase Transitions and Renormalization Group.', 'M. Kardar, Statistical Physics of Fields']

course title
PHY2315H S SPECIALIZED
session
winter
group
specialized course
time and location
Fridays, 11 am - 1 pm, MP1115
instructor

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