Each of the eight main topics for this course cuts across several lecture sessions .
Calendar Table
| TOPIC # |
Topics |
| 1 |
Statistical Ensembles
Microcanonical Ensemble
- Concept of Entropy and Temperature
- Spins in Magnetic Fields
Canonical Ensemble
- Classical Gas
Grand Canonical Ensemble
- Chemical Potential
- Equilibration of Chemical Reactions
van der Waals Model and Phase Transitions |
| 2 |
Ising Model and Phase Transition
Meanfield Theory and Second Order Phase Transition
Symmetry Breaking and Phase Transition
Symmetry Breaking and Ginsburg-Landau Theory
Spins in Magnetic Field and First Order Phase Transition
Water-vapor-ice
Liquid Crystals |
| 3 |
Fluctuations
Thermal Fluctuations
Fluctuation-Response Relation
Coherent Length and Local Fluctuations of Order Parameter |
| 4 |
Quantum Ideal Gas: Bose Gas and Bose Condensation
Photon Gas and Black Body Radiation
Phonon Gas and Thermal Properties of Solids
Bose Condensation |
| 5 |
Interacting Bose Gas
Wave Function of Condensed Bosons
Gross-Pitaevsky Equation
Ginsburg-Landau Theory for Superfluid
Collective Excitation in Superfluids
Superfluidity |
| 6 |
Quantum Ideal Gas: Fermi Gas
Metal and Fermi Liquid
Semiconductors
White Dwarf and Neutron Stars |
| 7 |
Transport
Hydrodynamics and Euler's Equation
Sound Waves
Diffusion and Random Walks
Damping of Sound Waves by Diffusion
Viscosity and Navier-Stokes Equation
Heat Conduction
Transport in Metal and Drude Model
Hall Effect
Boltzmann Equation and Thermoelectric Effects |
| 8 |
Noises
Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation
Langevin Equation-Dynamics of Random Walks
Power Spectrum and Noises
Noises in RC Circuit |