Critical Phenomena
Vahid Karimipour
Sharif University of Technology
Description and Prerequisites
This is an elementary course in critical phenomena and deals only with the basic concepts and some examples. It is suitable for undergraduate and early year graduate students.
Lecture Notes
These lecture notes are not complete and are being developed as I teach the course from time to time.
- Phenomenology of phase transitions
- Widom scaling hypothesis
- Mean field solutions for ferromagnetic systems
- Exact solutions of Ising model in one dimension
- Renormalization Group, part I.
- Renormalization Group, part II.
- Renormalization Group, part III.
- Landau Ginzburg Theory, the basic formalism
- The method of solution of LG models
- Landau Theory for a real scalar field
- Perturbation Theory
