Individual course details
Study programme Theoretical and experimental physics
Chosen research area (module)  
Nature and level of studies Master studies
Name of the course Theory of Phase transitions
Professor (lectures) Prof. Milan Knežević
Professor/associate (examples/practical)  
Professor/associate (additional)  
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  
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)
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Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
         
Teaching and learning methods lectures, consultation, computer simulations
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 20 written examination  
practicals 30 oral examination 50
papers      
presentations