Lecturer: Ali
Naji (School of Physics, IPM)
Office: Room 503,
Farmanieh Building (IPM)
Email:
a.naji@ipm.ir
; Tel: +98-21-22280692
ext. 3039
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Time:
Sundays, 14:00 - 15:40 and 16:30 - 18:10 (four-unit
course)
Starting from Sunday February 14, 2016 (Bahman
25, 1394) |
Place:
School of Physics, Institute for Research in
Fundamental Sciences (IPM),
Farmanieh Ave, Next to Kouh-e-Nour Building, Tehran,
Iran
Classroom A, Ground floor, Farmanieh Central
Building (IPM)
Tutorial sessions:
Wednesdays, 10:30 - 12:30, Classroom A; tutored by Dr. Bahman Roostaei
(IPM) |
Course information (click
here)
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Course Syllabus (click
here) |
Instructions and Suggested Topics for Term Essays (click
here)
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Problem sets:
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Homework #1: Thermodynamics and Statistical
Mechanics Prerequisite (I) |
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Homework #2: Thermodynamics and Statistical
Mechanics Prerequisite (II) |
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Quiz #1: Thermodynamics and Statistical
Mechanics Prerequisite |
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Homework #3: Spin Models |
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Homework #4: Continuum Limit &
Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation (I) |
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Homework #5:
Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation (II): Coulomb
fluids |
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Homework #6:
Continuum Spin and Quantum Systems |
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Homework #8:
Field Theory for Coulomb Fluids: Mean-field theory &
loop expansion |
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Homework #9:
Functional Determinants |
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Homework #10:
Casimir Effect & Fluctuation-Induced Interactions |
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Homework #11: Phase Transitions & Critical Phenomena: Mean-field theory |
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Homework #12: Phase Transitions & Critical Phenomena:
Gaussian fluctuations (one-loop corrections) |
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Homework #13: Phase Transitions & Critical Phenomena:
Real-space RG |
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Homework #14: Phase Transitions & Critical Phenomena:
Momentum-space RG |
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Homework #15: Phase Transitions & Critical Phenomena:
Continuous symmetry and Goldstone (zero) modes |
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Homework #16: Dissipative Dynamics of Particles and
Fields |
