53728 Statistical Physics (Statistinen fysiikka) II (10 cr, 6 sw)
Contents.
Advanced course in statistical physics. Second quantization. Correlation and response functions.
Fermi liquid. Interacting bosonic and fermionic systems. Green functions. Wick's theorem.
Functional representation. Generating functionals. Schwinger and Dyson equations. Thermal Green functions.
Superfluidity and superconductivity. Phase transitions and critical phenomena. Linear response theory. Kinetic equations.
Transport phenomena. Stochastic field theory.
Lectures
On Mondays 14:15-16:00 in the room D105 and on Fridays 10:15-12:00 in the room E206 (17.1.2007-4.5.2007).
Lecturer.
Juha
Honkonen .
Exercises
On Tuesdays 12-14 in the room D106, starting from 30 January.
Assistant.
Sami Nurmi.
Problem sets are delivered on Fridays. The answers should be left for
examination in the letterbox of the course assistant
no later Friday
16:00.
Exercise problems
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.
- 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.
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