Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Physics of Fields

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Generic Scale Invariance in Equilibrium Systems, Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Open Systems, and Dynamics of a Growing Surface.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Topological Defects in the XY Model.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces Dissipative Dynamics, including Brownian Motion of a Particle.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Renormalization Group for the Coulomb Gas.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Two Dimensional Solids and Two Dimensional Melting.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including the Non-linear σ-model.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Equilibrium Dynamics of a Field and Dynamics of a Conserved Field.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Critical Behavior of the Two Dimensional Ising Model.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Exact Free Energy of the Square Lattice Ising Model.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including Lattice Models, and Exact Treatment in d=1.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including the Irrelevance of Other Interactions and comments on the ε-expansion.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Summing over Phantom Loops.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Self-duality in the Two Dimensional Ising Model and Dual of the Three Dimensional Ising Model.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including the Niemeijer-van Leeuwen Cumulant Approximation and the Migdal-Kadanoff Bond Moving Approximation.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces Series Expansions, including Low-temperature Expansions, High-temperature Expansions, and Exact Solution of the One Dimensional Ising Model.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including Perturbative RG (Second Order), and the ε-expansion.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Scaling Hypothesis, including the Gaussian Model (Direct Solution), The Gaussian Model (Renormalization Group).

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including Perturbative RG (First Order).

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Landau-Ginzburg Approach, including Gaussian Integrals, Fluctuation Corrections to the Saddle Point, The Ginzburg Criterion.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including the Expectation Values in the Gaussian Model, Expectation Values in Perturbation Theory, Diagrammatic Representation of Perturbation Theory, and Susceptibility.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Scaling Hypothesis, including the Renormalization Group (Conceptual), and the Renormalization Group (Formal).

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Landau-Ginzburg Approach, including Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Goldstone Modes.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Landau-Ginzburg Approach, including Scattering and Fluctuations, Correlation Functions and Susceptibilities, Comparison to Experiments.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of the principles of collective behavior from particles to fields, and introduces the Landau-Ginzburg Approach.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Scaling Hypothesis, including the Homogeneity Assumption, Divergence of the Correlation Length, Critical Correlation Functions and Self-similarity.

In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the principles of collective behavior from particles to fields, including Phonons and Elasticity.