Course info

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.