Course level

Postgraduate Coursework

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Class hours

2 Lecture hours
1 Tutorial hour

Prerequisite

Permission of Head of School

Assessment methods

Assignment

Course enquiries

Dr Thomas Stace (stace@physics.uq.edu.au) and Dr Ben Powell (powell@physics.uq.edu.au)

This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.

Course description

This course is aimed at graduate level physics students and will cover a selection of material in Advanced Statistical Mechanics, including renormalisation/phase transitions/cross-overs, fluctuation dissipation, Kubo/linear response, transport (Boltzmann, Landauer Buttiker), Fokker-Planck, Mermin-Wagner Theorem, low-dimensional phenomena & Kosterlitz-Thouless.