- Lecturer: Sakura Schafer-Nameki
General Prerequisites:
Quantum Field Theory (MT),
Statistical Mechanics (MT) or equivalent.
Statistical Mechanics (MT) or equivalent.
Course Term: Trinity
Course Lecture Information: 16 lectures
Course Overview:
Areas: PT/CMT
Learning Outcomes:
Course Synopsis:
This course introduces ideas of scale-invariance and the renormalisation group in statistical physics, using simple lattice models and field theories as examples. Topics include: Real space RG; Fixed points, scaling operators, operator product expansion etc.; Landau Ginsburg theory; Mean field theory; Large N approximation; the 4-epsilon expansion; the 2+epsilon expansion; the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition; The Sine-Gordon model; XY duality.
Class tutor is Dewi Gould and the TA is Liam Gladden.
Classes will be 10am Fridays on Weeks 2,3,4 and 5 in C6.
The hand in deadline for the problem sets is 9am Tuesday before each class.
Class tutor is Dewi Gould and the TA is Liam Gladden.
Classes will be 10am Fridays on Weeks 2,3,4 and 5 in C6.
The hand in deadline for the problem sets is 9am Tuesday before each class.