A fractal lattice: Sierpinsky gasket. (Image by Prof. Levitov, adapted from
problem set 4.)
Highlights of this Course
This course is the second half of a two-semester course on statistical mechanics. The website features twelve
problem sets and detailed
lecture notes.
Course Description
Topics from modern statistical mechanics are explored in 8.334, Statistical Mechanics II, including:
- The hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories.
- Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory.
- The renormalization approach to collective phenomena.
- Integrable models. Quantum phase transitions.