Lectures in course PHYS-316: Statistical physics II

Explores phase transitions, critical points, opalescence, and metastability in substances.

Explores phase transitions in the Ising model, discussing equilibrium states, magnetization, and critical points.

Explores phase transitions in thermodynamics, emphasizing competition between phases controlled by temperature and the concept of universality.

Explores phase transitions in energy systems, including non-analytic behavior and the Ising model.

Covers the Ising simulation, focusing on update methods and measurements.

Explores the Ising model's critical behavior, universal classes, equilibrium properties, and numerical simulations.

Explores the Ising model, chemical potentials, repulsion forces, and hydrogen bonding in systems.

Explores modeling interactions in statistical physics, focusing on energy, magnetization, and phase transitions.

Explores metastability, phase transitions, and spinodal decomposition in finite dimensions.

Explores the Curie-Weiss model, magnetization, and phase transitions in materials.

Covers the spatial response of systems, including the calculation of the center of mass and convolution.

Explores phase transitions in two-dimensional systems and the critical behavior near transition points.

Explores the high-temperature expansion of the Ising model in 2D square lattice.

Explores the Ising model in 2D, emphasizing system expansion and properties.

Covers the calculation of paths in a graph, focusing on amplitude-weighted paths.

Explores the universal critical exponents of microscopic systems and the role of the renormalization group.

Covers the concept of the renormalization group and the effective Hamiltonian.

Explores the renormalization group applied to the Ising model and the derivation of the central limit theorem.

Explores critical behavior in general relativity, including scaling factor and coupling constant flow.

Covers the linearization of flow around a point, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and critical points.