Lecture Notes Advanced Statictical Mechanics (PHY541)

Fall 2004, Jacobus Verbaarschot

08-30-2004/L2, Phase Transitions, Critical Exponents, Spin Models, Landau-Peirels Argument

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09-01-2004/L2, Phase Transitions in 2d, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem

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09-03-2004/L3, Critical Exponents, Scaling, Scaling Relations

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09-08-2004/L4, Landau-Ginzberg Theory, Mean Field Critical Exponents, Inhomogeneous Systems

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09-10-2004/L5, Functional Derivatives, Fourier Integrals, Two-Point Correlation Function

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09-13-2004/L6, Two Point Correlation Function, Ginzberg Criterium Upper Critical Dimension, Central Limit Theorem

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09-15-2004/L7, Upper Critical Dimension, Central Limit Theorem, Central Limit Theorem, Iterative Proof, 1d Ising Model

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09-20-2004/L8, 1d Ising Model, Transfer Matrix, Correlation Functions

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09-22-2004/L9, Correlation Functions, High Temperature Expansion, Low Temperature Expansion, Mean Field Theory

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09-24-2004/L10, Kramers Wannier Duality, Onsager Solution

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09-28-2004/L11, Onsager Solution

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09-29-2004/L12, Onsager Solution, Valentin-Bogolubov transformation

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10-01-2004/L13, Discussion of Onsager Solution

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10-05-2004/L14, Discussion of Onsager Solution, XY Model

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10-06-2004/L15, Solution of 1d XY Model

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10-08-2004/L16, Heisenberg Model

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10-12-2004/L17, Solution of the 1d Heisenberg Model

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10-13-2004/L18, Ground State Energy the 1d Heisenberg Model, Continuous Symmetries

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10-15-2004/L19, Continuous Symmetries, Goldstones Theorem, Mermin-Wagner Theorem

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10-19-2004/L20, Mermin-Wagner Theorem, Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition

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10-20-2004/L21, Vortices and the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition, Monte-Carlo Simulations

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10-22-2004/L22, Importance Sampling, Markov Chains

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10-26-2004/L23,

Prof. V. Korepin, Review of Exactly Solvable Models

10-27-2004/L24,

Metropolis Algorithm, Heat Bath Algoritm, Langevin Equatin, Fokker-Planck Equation

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10-28-2004/L25,

Fokker-Planck Equation, Microcanonical Simulations, Critical Slowing Down, Anomalous Dimensions

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11-02-2004/L26,

Anomalous Dimensions, Field Theory

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11-03-2004/L27,

Kadanoff Theory, Block Spins, Renormalization Group

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11-05-2004/L28,

RG Transformation, Fixed Points, Linearized RG Flow

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11-09-2004/L29,

Classification of Fixed Points, RG Transformation for One and Two Relevant Variables

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11-10-2004/L30,

Block Spin Transformation for the 2d Ising Model

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11-12-2004/L31,

Phase Diagram, Nienhuis-Nauenberg Criterium, Finite Size Scaling, Crossover, Epsilon Expansion

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11-16-2004/L33,

Epsilon Expansion, Gaussian Model

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11-17-2004/L33,

One Loop Renormalization of the S^4 Theory

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11-19-2004/L34,

Two Loop Renormalization of the S^4 Theory

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11-23-2004/L35,

Analysis of the RG equations

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11-24-2004/L36

Growth Phenomena, Loewner Equation

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11-30-2004/L37

Stochastic Loewner Equation

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12-01-2004/L38

Applications of the Stochastic Loewner Equation

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12-03-2004/L39

Hermitian Random Matrix Theories

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12-03-2004/L39

Nonhermitian Random Matrix Theories, Loop Equations

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13. Heisenberg Model (pdf-file)