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- Lecturer: Profile: Luis Alday
Course information
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
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.
Section outline
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Tutorial 1:
May 12, 4-5:30 PM in Room C3
Tutorial 2:
May 19, 4-5:30 PM in Room C3
Tutorial 3:
May 23, 11 AM-12:30 PM in Room C4
Tutorial 4:
May 30, 11 AM- 12:30 PM in Room C4