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This is the home page of the course "Statistical Physics: Concepts and Applications", that I teach this year for the first time to the ICFP first-year Master students at ENS. Tutorial sessions are assured by Maurizio Fagotti, JRC laureate researcher at the ENS Department of Physics, and world-wide expert in Statistical Mechanics. This is the home page of the course "Statistical Physics: Concepts and Applications", that I teach this year for the first time to the ICFP first-year Master students at ENS. Tutorial sessions are assured by Maurizio Fagotti, JRC laureate researcher at the ENS Department of Physics, and world-wide expert in Statistical Mechanics.
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=Week 1: The power of statistical physics= =Week 1: The power of statistical physics=

Revision as of 03:27, 25 November 2015

This is the home page of the course "Statistical Physics: Concepts and Applications", that I teach this year for the first time to the ICFP first-year Master students at ENS. Tutorial sessions are assured by Maurizio Fagotti, JRC laureate researcher at the ENS Department of Physics, and world-wide expert in Statistical Mechanics.

Preliminary lecture notes (25 November 2015)

Contents

Week 1: The power of statistical physics

Lecture: The power of statistics (Mathematical aspects).

Tutorial: Convolution, central limit theorem, Levy distributions.

Week 2: Phase transitions, general theorems

Lecture: Hard spheres in 2d, 1d: virial, depletion, absence of transition.

Tutorial: Presence / Absence of transition in 1d systems. Kittel model, etc

Week 3: Classical Ising model

Lecture: Exact computations in the two-dimensional Ising model (Kac-Ward)

Tutorial: Exact computations in the one-dimensional Ising model (transfer matrix)

Week 4: Classical/Quantum Ising model

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