| Individual course details | ||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and experimental physics | |||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||
| Nature and level of studies | Master studies | |||
| Name of the course | Theory of Phase transitions | |||
| Professor (lectures) | Prof. Milan Knežević | |||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | ||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||
| ECTS | 10 | Status (required/elective) | elective | |
| Access requirements | statistical physics | |||
| Aims of the course | Learn the main concepts, laws and methods of phase transition theory. | |||
| Learning outcomes | Students will be able to study real examples of phase transitions . | |||
| Contents of the course | ||||
| Lectures | Phenomenology and classification of phase transitions. Examples of phase transitions; basic experimental facts. Classical theory of phase transitions. Scaling laws near the critical points. Method of renormalization group; general properties of the approach; universality. Real-space renormalization; examples. Momentum-space renormalization. Exactly soluble models. Numerical methods. | |||
| Examples/ practical classes | ||||
| Recommended books | ||||
| 1 | H. Nishimori and G. Ortiz, Elements of phase transitions and critical phenomena, Oxford (2011) | |||
| 2 | N. Goldefend Lectures on phase transitions and the renormalization group, Addison-Wesley (1993) | |||
| 3 | J. Binney, N. Dowrick, A. Fisher and M. Newman, The theory of critical phenomena, Oxford (1992) | |||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |
| Teaching and learning methods | lectures, consultation, computer simulations | |||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |
| coursework | 20 | written examination | ||
| practicals | 30 | oral examination | 50 | |
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