Advanced Statistical Mechanics (PHYS7074)
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.