Individual
course details |
Study programme |
Theoretical
and experimental physics |
Chosen research area (module) |
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Nature and level of studies |
Master
studies |
Name of the course |
Theory
of Phase transitions |
Professor (lectures) |
Prof.
Milan Knežević |
Professor/associate (examples/practical) |
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Professor/associate (additional) |
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ECTS |
10 |
Status
(required/elective) |
elective |
Access requirements |
statistical
physics |
Aims of the course |
Learn
the main concepts, laws and methods of phase transition theory. |
Learning outcomes |
Students
will be able to study real examples of phase transitions . |
Contents of the course |
Lectures |
Phenomenology
and classification of phase transitions.
Examples of phase transitions; basic experimental facts. Classical
theory of phase transitions. Scaling
laws near the critical points. Method of renormalization group; general
properties of the approach; universality. Real-space renormalization;
examples. Momentum-space renormalization. Exactly soluble models. Numerical
methods. |
Examples/ practical classes |
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Recommended books |
1 |
H.
Nishimori and G. Ortiz, Elements of phase transitions and critical phenomena,
Oxford (2011) |
2 |
N.
Goldefend Lectures on phase transitions and the renormalization group,
Addison-Wesley (1993) |
3 |
J.
Binney, N. Dowrick, A. Fisher and M.
Newman, The theory of critical phenomena, Oxford (1992) |
4 |
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5 |
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Number of classes (weekly) |
Lectures |
Examples&practicals |
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Student
project |
Additional |
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Teaching and learning methods |
lectures,
consultation, computer simulations |
Assessment (maximal 100) |
assesed coursework |
mark |
examination |
mark |
coursework |
20 |
written
examination |
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practicals |
30 |
oral
examination |
50 |
papers |
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presentations |
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