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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid
Event type:
hybrid: Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
Theo 7
Hours per week:
6
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
Requirement: Thermodynamics and statistical physics (Theory IV)
The class will be taught online only.
If you are a JGU student, please register for this class. If you are not a JGU student and wish to attend, then send an Email to friederike.schmid@uni-mainz.de
Contents:
Brief Recapitulation: Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
1) Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
1.1) Introduction
1.2) The Ising Model
1.3) The Ginzburg-Landau Theory
1.4) Critical Phenomena and Scaling Hypothesis
1.5) The Renormalization Group
2) Statistical Physics at Nonequilibrium
2.1) Dynamics Close to Equilibrium, Linear Response
2.2) The Boltzmann Equation
2.3) Stochastic Processes
2.4) Irreversibility, Fluctuation Theorems and Further Topics
Recommended reading list:
Schwabl: Statistical Physics
Landau/Lifshitz: Theoretical Physics, Vol V and IX
Chandler: Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics
Chaikin/Lubensky: Principles of Condensed Matter Physics
Plischke/Bergersen: Equilibrium Statistical Physics
Goldenfeld: Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group
Binney, Dorwick, Fisher, Newman: The Theory of Critical Phenomena
Baker: Quantitative theory of critical phenomena
Wegner: Supermathematics and its applications in Statistical Physics
Kubo, Toda, Hashitsume: Statistical Physics II
Zwanzig: Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
Babovsky: The Boltzmann Equation
Paul/Baschnagel: Stochastic Processes
van Kampen: Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry
Risken: The Fokker-Planck Equation
Oettinger: Beyond Equilibrium Thermodynamics
de Gennes: Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics
Additional information:
Digital teaching:
Access information will be provided by Email.
Course material will ideally be provided via Moodle, if we manage to give guest access to everyone. Otherwise, we will use the course website as a backup.
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