Mini-Course on Phase Transitions and Ordering (7 lectures with intervening interactive tutorials)
by
Prof.Mustansir Barma(TCIS, TIFR Hyderabad)
→
Asia/Kolkata
A304
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