53728 Statistical Physics II (Statistinen fysiikka II) (10 ECTS cr)

Contents: Advanced course in quantum field theory. Second quantization in quantum statistics. Linear response theory. Stochastic processes and fields. Second quantization in stochastic field theory. Green functions in perturbation theory. Functional integrals. Green functions at finite temperature. Functional Legendre transforms. Symmetry breaking and anomalous Green functions. Renormalization group. Kinetic equations. Path-ordered Green functions.

Lectures

Period III 16.1.-2.3.2012 and period IV 12.3.-4.5.2012. Lectures on Wednesdays 8-10 and Fridays 9-11 in D106.

Note: First lecture on Fri 20 January.

Lecturer Juha Honkonen.

Exercises

Lecture notes

Literature

A. A. Abrikosov, L. P. Gor'kov, I. E. Dzyaloshinskii, Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics, Prentice-Hall, 1963.
F. A. Berezin, The Method of Second Quantization, Academic, 1966.
A. L. Fetter, J. D. Walecka, Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1971.
C. W. Gardiner, Handbook of Stochastic Methods for Physics, Chemistry and the Natural Sciences, Springer, 1997.
L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, Statistical Physics, Pergamon, 1980
E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii, Statistical Physics, Part 2, Pergamon, 1980.
E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii, Physical Kinetics, Pergamon, 1981.
G. D. Mahan, Many-particle physics, Plenum, 1990.
D. Zubarev, V. Morozov, G. Röpke, Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Processes, Vol. 1: Basic Concepts, Kinetic Theory, Akademie Verlag, 1996.
A. N. Vasil'ev, Functional Methods in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics, Gordon and Breach, 1998.
A. N. Vasil'ev, The Field Theoretic Renormalization Group in Critical Behavior Theory and Stochastic Dynamics. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2004.

The website for the course in 2007, 2009 and 2010.

This page has been updated 3.2.2012.