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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Science : Bachelor of Science (Honours) and Bachelor of Information Systems (Honours)
640-406 Statistical Mechanics |
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Coordinator: | Dr T D Kieu | |
Timetable: | Semester 1 | |
Contact: | 24 lectures in the second half of the semester with some tutorial sessions | |
Content: | Review of thermodynamics, information theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, properties of partition functions, simple exactly solvable interacting models, mean field approximation, cluster expansions and other approximation methods, phase transition and critical phenomena, scaling and universality, introduction to real-space and momentum-space renormalisation groups, response function and fluctuations, theory of Monte Carlo simulations, Monte Carlo renormalisation group, introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. | |
Assessment: | Assignments throughout the course (35%) and an examination (65%). | |
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