Transitions de phase
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- Teaching team and schedule:
- Guillame Roux, course on Fridays 9am-11:30am
- Thomas Noblet, (tutorials on Fridays 1:30pm-4pm
- starts December 1st, last day on March 9th, exam on March 16th
- 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
- Lectures notes and tutorials :
- Lectures notes by Nicolas Pavloff (in French)
- Tutorials (first part, in English)
- bibliography :
- Evaluation
- 4 little exercices (finishing last questions) during the tutorials, each two weeks
- final exam : 3 hours, written exam
- Annales (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