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PHYS 563 - Phase Transitions

Last offered Spring 2017

Official Description

Phenomenology of phase transitions, scaling, critical behavior, and multi-criticality; Landau theory of phase transitions; renormalization group methods, including lattice models and epsilon-expansion; numerical methods; critical dynamics; selected additional topics. Course Information: Prerequisite: PHYS 504.

Texts

No required textbook.
Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group. 1992. Westview Press (recommended)

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Phase TransitionsA48933LEC41400 - 1520 M W  222 Loomis Laboratory Nigel Goldenfeld