Dec 17, 2024  
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Graduate School Course Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 5220 - Statistical Mechanics II (3)

Prerequisites: PHYS 5210 . The purpose of the course is not only to give the students a deeper understanding of thermodynamics and the principles of equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, but also to introduce them to the modern topics of Monte Carlo sampling, the renormalization group theory, and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The ideas surrounding these topics have revolutionized the subject of statistical mechanics, and it is largely due to them that the practitioners of statistical mechanics now play a significant role in the current research and discoveries of fields ranging from molecular biology to materials science and engineering, to chemical structure and dynamics, and even to high energy physics. (Three lecture hours per week).


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