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

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.