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| PHYS0212-1 | Statistical physics
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 15h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Nicolas Vandewalle |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | 1. Introduction
2. Thermodynamics
3. Gibbs measures
4. Ideal gas revisited
5. Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein distributions
6. Fermion gas
7. Boson gas
8. Phase transitions
9. Ising model
10. Spin models
11. Critical phenomena and scale invariance
12. Renormalization group theory
13. Percolation
14. Random walks |
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| Course objective : | The aim of this lecture is to introduce modern tools of statistical physics and to emphasize their applications : gas, amorphous systems, exotic materials, phase transitions, diffusion, ... |
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| Prerequisites : | The lecture is based on general physics and on advanced thermodynamics.
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| Workshops : | Exercises and additional examples to illustrate the theory. |
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| Organization : | The lectures takes place at the second semester. |
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| Written notes : | Lectures notes on the web (PDF files). See the website of Prof. Nicolas Vandewalle. |
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| Assessment : | Written/oral examination. |
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| Contacts : | Nicolas Vandewalle : 04/366.3703, nvandewalle@ulg.ac.be
Christophe Becco : 04/366.3707, c.becco@ulg.ac.be |
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