Transitions de phase
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- Teaching team and schedule:
- Guillame Roux, course on Fridays 9am-11:30am
- Thomas Noblet, tutorials on Fridays 1:30pm-4pm
- Syllabus:
- Mean-field description of the ferromagnetic Ising model
- Landau's phenomenology and classification
- Inhomogeneous systems: Ginzburg-Landau
- Fluctuations
- Scale invariance and universality
- Dynamics of phase transitions
- Bibliography:
- Evaluation
- continuous assessment: 4 little exercices (finishing last questions) during the tutorials, each two weeks
- final exam : 3 hours, written exam
- final grade = (2*FE + CA)/3
- Schedule
- 01/12 :
- 08/12 :
- 15/12 :
- 22/12 :
- Xmas break
- 26/01 :
- 02/02 :
- 09/02 :
- 16/02 :
- 23/02 :
- Winter break
- 09/03 :
- 16/03 : Exams
- Lectures notes and tutorials:
- Lectures notes by Nicolas Pavloff (in French)
- Tutorials (first part, in English)
- Annals (most are actually in the tutorials), in French :
- 2013 : liquid crystals (done in tutorials)
- 2014 : critical temperature of finite-size system, polymers (done in tutorials)
- 2015 : exam - correction for front propagation (van der waals done in tutorials)
- 2016 : Bose-Einstein condensates exam - correction
- 2017 : Coupled order parameters - Cahn-Hilliard equation exam - correction