Physics 140A/B : Lecture Notes

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02/01 @ 18:00
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1
3

APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM
01/10 @ 16:00
(30 pages pdf)
2
4

STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES

01/10 @ 16:00
(59 pages pdf)
3,4,5
2
01/30 @ 01:00
(106 pages pdf)
6,7
5 QUANTUM STATISTICS 01/10 @ 16:00
(59 pages pdf)		 8,9,10
6

INTERACTING SYSTEMS

02/01 @ 18:00
(69 pages pdf)
1,2,3
7

MEAN FIELD THEORY
02/04 @ 08:00
(84 pages pdf)
4,5,6,7
8

NONEQUILIBRIUM PHENOMENA

03/13 @ 09:30
(69 pages pdf)
8,9,10
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Reading Assignments

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WEEK SUBJECT LECTURE NOTES PELITI BOOK
1 Ising model, Peierls argument 6.2.1-7 5.9, 5.10
2 Mayer expansion, liquids 6.3.1-8, 6.4.1-2 7.1, 7.2, 7.2.1-5, 7.3
3 liquids, plasmas 6.4.3-4, 6.5 7.5.1
4 phase transitions, mean field theory 7.2, 7.3.1-2, 7.4.1-3 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5
5 mean field and variational methods 7.4.4-6, 7.5.1-3 5.12, 5.13
6 Landau theory, MFT correlations 7.6.1-4, 7.7.1-2 5.15, 5.16, 5.17
7 global symmetries, MIDTERM 7.8.1-3 5.6, 5.7, 5.8
8 Boltzmann equation 8.2, 8.3.1-6 Reif 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
9 calculating transport coefficients 8.4, 8.5.1-7, 8.6 Reif 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
10 stochastic processes 8.9.1-6 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, Reif ch.15