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Long-Range Order, Symmetry and Soft Modes |
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PS1 (PDF) out |
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Continuous and Discontinuous Phase Transitions. Mean Field Theory |
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PS2 (PDF) out |
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Recitation 1D Models: The e-λ|x| Gas, Ising |
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Symmetry Breaking, Landau Theory |
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PS1 (PDF) due
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Universality Classes. Susceptibility and Fluctuations |
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Fluctuations Near Phase Transition. Renormalization Group |
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PS2 (PDF) due
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Real Space RG. Blocking, Decimation, Bonds-Moving |
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Recitation The Ising Model, Exact Solution |
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Scaling Theory Near a Critical Point |
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PS3 (PDF) due
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Field-Theoretic RG. Low Dimension. (Choose Term Paper Topic) |
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Recitation RG for Quadratic Hamiltonians. Mermin-Wagner Thm |
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The Nonlinear Sigma Model, The XY Model. Topological Phase Transition |
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PS4 (PDF) due
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Guest Lecture: Quantum Chromodynamics on a Lattice, by John Negele |
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Guest Lecture: Nonequilibrium Critical Phenomena. Turbulence, by G. Falkovich |
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Kosterlitz-Thouless RG; Duality; Coulomb Gas, Solid-on-Solid Models; Vortex Melting of 2D Crystals |
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PS5 (PDF) due
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Statistical Field Theory; Saddle-Point Approximation (Mean Field Revisited) |
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Recitation |
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The Upper Critical Dimension; Ising Model and Logarithms in d = 4 |
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PS6 (PDF) due
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Wilson-Fisher Fix Point. The ε-Expansion Method: 4-ε and 2+ε |
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Recitation |
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The Onsager Problem, Exact Solution(s) |
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PS7 (PDF) due
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Other Exactly Solvable 2D Problems: Potts Model, etc |
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Recitation |
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Critical Dynamics |
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PS8 (PDF) due
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Critical Dynamics |
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Recitation |
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Quantum Transitions |
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PS9 (PDF) due
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Quantum Transitions |
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Random Systems |
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PS10 (PDF) due
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Random Systems |
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Recitation |
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Glasses, Nonergodicity |
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PS11 (PDF) due |
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Glass Transition |
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Recitation |
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PS12 (PDF) due |
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Conformal Field Theory in Stat Mech |
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Conformal Field Theory in Stat Mech |
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Recitation |
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Final Exam |
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