PHY 832

Special Topics in Statistical Mechanics
Fall, Spring Semester
3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Recommended Background:
Topics vary and may include superfluidity and superconductivity, magnetism, non-linear dynamics and chaos, phase transitions and critical phenomena, transport theory, disordered systems, and computational physics.

PHY 832A

Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Statistical Mechanics
3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)
Prerequisites:
  • PHY 831
Application of statistical mechanics principles to nonlinear dynamics and chaos.

PHY 832B

Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena in Statistical Mechanics
3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)
Prerequisites:
  • PHY 831
Application to critical phenomena. Phase transitions, Landau theory, scaling.

PHY 832C

Linear Response Theory in Quantum Statistical Systems
3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)
Prerequisites:
  • PHY 831
Linear response theory in quantum statistical systems. Applications to magnetism, electrical and optical response functions. Fluctuations.

PHY 832D

Superfluidity and Superconductivity in Statistical Mechanics
3 credits ( 3 hr lecture, 0 hr lab)
Prerequisites:
  • PHY 831
Applications to superfluidity and superconductivity.
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