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[[ICFP Stat Physics 2018 infos| Look here for practical information]] [[ICFP Stat Physics 2018 infos| Look here for practical information]]
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 +Latest News:
 +* 07 January 2019: New schedule for final exam - Monday 14 January 20192:00pm-5:00pm.Look [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/3/37/ExamFinal2017.pdf here for the final exam in 2017/18]. The exam will take place in room ConfIV (orange corridor, second floor).
 +* 03 January 2019: Mail sent about possible change of exam hour.
 +* 29 October 2018: Look [[ICFP Stat Physics 2018 infos|here]] for info on the 2018 mid-term exam (12 november 2018), and [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/6/61/MidTerm_2017_Solutions.pdf here] for the 2017 midterm exam (with solutions). No external material will be allowed during this 2-hour exam.
 +* 22 October 2018: Python2 program for the Kac-Ward matrix on 2x2 and 4x4 lattices available (check out Lecture 07).
 +* 16 October 2018: BUGFIX: No lecture on 29 October 2018, Lecture on 05 November 2018, sorry for the confusion
 +* 16 October 2018: Solutions of TD01-TD05 now available
 +* 09 October 2018: Lecture Notes 05 now available
==Week 1 (10 September 2018): Probability theory== ==Week 1 (10 September 2018): Probability theory==
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==Week 5 (08 October 2018): Hard spheres and the Ising model in one dimension (Transfer matrix 1/2)== ==Week 5 (08 October 2018): Hard spheres and the Ising model in one dimension (Transfer matrix 1/2)==
 +* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/9/92/OneDTransfer.pdf Lecturenotes 05 (Version 11 oct 2018 be improved in the next few days.]
* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/8/82/TD05_ICFP_2018.pdf Tutorial 05: One-dimensional short-range interacting systems with phase transitions (!).] * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/8/82/TD05_ICFP_2018.pdf Tutorial 05: One-dimensional short-range interacting systems with phase transitions (!).]
* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/6/66/HW05_ICFP_2018.pdf Homework 05: Transfer matrices for hard spheres, variations on a theme.] * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/6/66/HW05_ICFP_2018.pdf Homework 05: Transfer matrices for hard spheres, variations on a theme.]
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==Week 6 (15 October 2018): Two-dimensional Ising model: From Ising to Onsager (Transfer matrix 2/2)== ==Week 6 (15 October 2018): Two-dimensional Ising model: From Ising to Onsager (Transfer matrix 2/2)==
-<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/8/8f/TD06sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 06: Peierls argument for spontaneous symmetry breaking in two and higher dimensions.]+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/9/93/TD06_ICFP_2018.pdf Tutorial 06: Peierls argument for spontaneous symmetry breaking in two and higher dimensions.]
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/6/6e/HW06_ICFP_2017.pdf Homework 06: Thouless (!) argument; transfer matrix for the two-dimensional Ising model on a stripe.]+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/4/46/HW06_ICFP_2018.pdf Homework 06: Thouless (!) argument; transfer matrix for the two-dimensional Ising model on a stripe.]
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/5/56/Transfer_2d_Ising_2017.pdf PDF of Mathematica notebook file useful for Lecture 06 and Homework 06.]+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/2/2f/Transfer_2d_Ising.pdf PDF of Mathematica notebook file useful for Lecture 06 and Homework 06.]
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References for Week 6: References for Week 6:
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==Week 7 (22 October 2018): Two-dimensional Ising model: From Kramers & Wannier to Kac & Ward (Low- and high-temperature expansions)== ==Week 7 (22 October 2018): Two-dimensional Ising model: From Kramers & Wannier to Kac & Ward (Low- and high-temperature expansions)==
<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/0/01/TwoDIsingKacWard.pdf Lecture Notes 07 Van der Waerden, Kac-Ward solution of the two-dimensional Ising model.] <!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/0/01/TwoDIsingKacWard.pdf Lecture Notes 07 Van der Waerden, Kac-Ward solution of the two-dimensional Ising model.]
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/b/be/TD07sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 07: High-temperature expansion of the Ising model - Free energy and correlation functions]+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/b/be/TD07sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 07: High-temperature expansion of the Ising model - Free energy and correlation functions]-->
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/2/2b/HW07_ICFP_2017.pdf Homework 07: Inside the Kac-Ward solution of the two-dimensional Ising model.] Note that we make the connection between the Kac-Ward matrix and the architecture of highway crossings!+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/8/8d/HW07_ICFP_2018.pdf Homework 07: Inside the Kac-Ward solution of the two-dimensional Ising model.] Note that we make the connection between the Kac-Ward matrix and the architecture of highway crossings!
NB: In the text of the HW07, we suppose N=even. Furthermore, note that an identity cycle is a cycle of length 1. NB: In the text of the HW07, we suppose N=even. Furthermore, note that an identity cycle is a cycle of length 1.
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/8/85/U_2x2_nb.pdf PDF of Mathematica notebook file (setup of Kac-Ward matrix for a 2x2 Ising model) essential for Homework 07.] -->+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/e/ee/U_2x2.pdf PDF of Mathematica notebook file (setup of Kac-Ward matrix for a 2x2 Ising model) essential for Homework 07.]
 +* [[Combinatorial ising.py| Here is a Python2 program for the 2x2 and the 4x4 lattice]] showing that the determinant of the Kac-Ward matrix gives the square of the corresponding partition functions.
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References for Week 7: References for Week 7:
* W. Krauth, "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" (Oxford, 2006) section 5.1.3 (high-temperature expansion, following van der Waerden (1941)), and section 5.1.4 (Kac-Ward solution)). * W. Krauth, "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" (Oxford, 2006) section 5.1.3 (high-temperature expansion, following van der Waerden (1941)), and section 5.1.4 (Kac-Ward solution)).
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* J. M. Yeomans, "Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions (Oxford, 1992), chapter 6 (for exercise 1 of tutorial 07). * J. M. Yeomans, "Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions (Oxford, 1992), chapter 6 (for exercise 1 of tutorial 07).
-==Week 8 (29 October 2018): The three pillars of mean-field theory (Transitions and order parameters 1/2)==+==Week 8 (05 November 2018): The three pillars of mean-field theory (Transitions and order parameters 1/2)==
-<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/a/ac/TD08_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 08: The Bethe lattice]+<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/a/ac/TD08_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 08: The Bethe lattice]-->
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/6/6f/HW08_ICFP_2017.pdf Homework 08: Mean-field theory as easy as 1-2-3]. In relation with homework 08, please check out the following programs:+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/f/f7/HW08_ICFP_2018.pdf Homework 08: Mean-field theory as easy as 1-2-3]. In relation with homework 08, please check out the following programs:
** [[Mean_field_self_consistency_single_site.py]] and ** [[Mean_field_self_consistency_single_site.py]] and
** [[Mean field gen d Ising lattice.py]]. . Also check out the program ** [[Mean field gen d Ising lattice.py]]. . Also check out the program
** [[Ising mean field 1d.py| Ising mean field 1d.py]] (self-consistent mean field solution of a one-dimensional Ising chain, as well as its linearized approximation) ** [[Ising mean field 1d.py| Ising mean field 1d.py]] (self-consistent mean field solution of a one-dimensional Ising chain, as well as its linearized approximation)
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References for Week 8: References for Week 8:
* R. J. Baxter: "Exactly solved models in Statistical Mechanics" (1982) (Chapter 3, for the solution of the Ising model on a fully connected graph) * R. J. Baxter: "Exactly solved models in Statistical Mechanics" (1982) (Chapter 3, for the solution of the Ising model on a fully connected graph)
-* M Plischke, B Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific) section 3.1, pp 63 - 65 (Self-consistency à la Weiss, development for small m)+* M. Plischke, B. Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific) section 3.1, pp 63 - 65 (Self-consistency à la Weiss, development for small m)
 +* M. Plischke, B. Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific) section 3.1, pp 67 - 68 (Bragg-Williams theory)
 +* C. M. Bender, S. A. Orszag, "Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory" (Springer, 1999) (difference equations)
==Week 9 (12 November 2018): Landau theory / Ginzburg criterium (Transitions and order parameters 2/2) / Midterm exam== ==Week 9 (12 November 2018): Landau theory / Ginzburg criterium (Transitions and order parameters 2/2) / Midterm exam==
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==Week 10 (19 November 2017): Kosterlitz-Thouless physics in two dimensions: The XY model (Transitions without order parameters 1/2)== ==Week 10 (19 November 2017): Kosterlitz-Thouless physics in two dimensions: The XY model (Transitions without order parameters 1/2)==
-<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/e/ef/TD10sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 10: The roughening transition]+<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/e/ef/TD10sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 10: The roughening transition] -->
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/c/cb/HW10_ICFP_2017.pdf Homework 10: Topological excitation and their interactions in the XY model - See for yourself!]. NB: Please check out [[Vortex pair.py| the program Vortex_pair.py]] that will allow you to generate configurations without vortices, with one vortex, and with a vortex-antivortex pair. -->+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/5/58/HW10_ICFP_2018.pdf Homework 10: Topological excitation and their interactions in the XY model - See for yourself!]. NB: Please check out [[Vortex pair.py| the program Vortex_pair.py]] that will allow you to generate configurations without vortices, with one vortex, and with a vortex-antivortex pair.
References for Week 10: References for Week 10:
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==Week 11 (26 November 2017): Kosterlitz-Thouless physics in two dimensions: KTHNY Melting theory (Transitions without order parameters 2/2)== ==Week 11 (26 November 2017): Kosterlitz-Thouless physics in two dimensions: KTHNY Melting theory (Transitions without order parameters 2/2)==
-<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/8/80/TD11_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 11: The harmonic solid]+ 
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References for Week 11: References for Week 11:
* J. M. Kosterlitz, D. M. Thouless "Ordering, Metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems" J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics 6, 1181 (1973) (First two pages: Motivation of KT theory <=> 2D melting. Origin of KT theory <=> dislocation theory of melting). * J. M. Kosterlitz, D. M. Thouless "Ordering, Metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems" J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics 6, 1181 (1973) (First two pages: Motivation of KT theory <=> 2D melting. Origin of KT theory <=> dislocation theory of melting).
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==Week 12 (03 December 2018): The renormalization group - an introduction== ==Week 12 (03 December 2018): The renormalization group - an introduction==
-<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/c/c2/TD12sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 12: Real-space renormalization group for percolation]+ 
--->+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/d/de/TD12sol_ICFP_2018.pdf Tutorial 12: The harmonic solid (For self-study, this TD goes with lecture 11)]
References for Week 12: References for Week 12:
* H. J. Maris & L. P. Kadanoff "Teaching the renormalization group" American Journal of Physics 46, 652 (1978) * H. J. Maris & L. P. Kadanoff "Teaching the renormalization group" American Journal of Physics 46, 652 (1978)
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* P. J. Reynolds, H. E. Stanley and W. Klein "A Real-space renormalization group for site and bond percolation" J. of Phys. C, 10, L167 (1977) (Tutorial) * P. J. Reynolds, H. E. Stanley and W. Klein "A Real-space renormalization group for site and bond percolation" J. of Phys. C, 10, L167 (1977) (Tutorial)
* D. Stauffer, A. Aharony, "Introduction to Percolation Theory", 2nd rev. ed., Taylor & Francis, 2003 (Tutorial) * D. Stauffer, A. Aharony, "Introduction to Percolation Theory", 2nd rev. ed., Taylor & Francis, 2003 (Tutorial)
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==Week 13 (10 December 2018): Quantum statistics 1/2: Ideal Bosons== ==Week 13 (10 December 2018): Quantum statistics 1/2: Ideal Bosons==
-<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/5/53/TD13_ICFP_2017sol.pdf Tutorial 13: The Toric code]+<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/5/59/TD13_ICFP_2017sol.pdf Tutorial 13: The Toric code]-->
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/b/bf/HW13_ICFP_2017.pdf Homework 13: Ideal Bosons in the canonical and grand-canonical formulation] Please study carefully.+* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/5/59/HW13_ICFP_2018.pdf Homework 13: Ideal Bosons in the canonical and grand-canonical formulation] Please study carefully.
* [[Naive_bosons.py| Here is the python program for enumerating all N-body states of 5 bosons in 35 single-particle states the partition function of canonic bosons]]. This program is useful for homework 13. * [[Naive_bosons.py| Here is the python program for enumerating all N-body states of 5 bosons in 35 single-particle states the partition function of canonic bosons]]. This program is useful for homework 13.
* [[Canonic_bosons.py| Here is the python program for rigorously computing the partition function of canonic bosons]], using integration over a chemical potential, that you may use for homework 13. * [[Canonic_bosons.py| Here is the python program for rigorously computing the partition function of canonic bosons]], using integration over a chemical potential, that you may use for homework 13.
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References for Week 13: References for Week 13:
* J. A. Lipa et al, "Specific heat of liquid helium in zero gravity very near the lambda point", Phys. Rev. B 68, 174518 (2003) (Space-shuttle experiments) * J. A. Lipa et al, "Specific heat of liquid helium in zero gravity very near the lambda point", Phys. Rev. B 68, 174518 (2003) (Space-shuttle experiments)
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==Week 14 (17 December 2018): Quantum statistics 2/2: 4He and the 3D Heisenberg model, Non-classical rotational inertia== ==Week 14 (17 December 2018): Quantum statistics 2/2: 4He and the 3D Heisenberg model, Non-classical rotational inertia==
-<!-- [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/7/74/SMAC_3_1_4.pdf Here is part of section 3.1.4 of SMAC about the disturbing non-classical rotation of a quantum particle on a ring.] The discussion is due to A. J. Leggett (1973, see below).+[http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/7/74/SMAC_3_1_4.pdf Here is part of section 3.1.4 of SMAC about the disturbing non-classical rotation of a quantum particle on a ring.] The discussion is due to A. J. Leggett (1973, see below).
-* [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/3/32/TD14sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 14: Quantum phases and quantum phase transitions] -->+<!-- * [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/3/32/TD14sol_ICFP_2017.pdf Tutorial 14: Quantum phases and quantum phase transitions] -->
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* W. Krauth "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/7/74/SMAC_3_1_4.pdf Sect 3.1.4]. (Allows to understand non-classical rotational inertia by only considering an ideal quantum particles). * W. Krauth "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" [http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/images/7/74/SMAC_3_1_4.pdf Sect 3.1.4]. (Allows to understand non-classical rotational inertia by only considering an ideal quantum particles).
* A. J. Leggett "Topics in the theory of helium" Physica Fennica 8, 125 (1973) (Fundamental paper which explains Non-classical rotational inertia very similarly to how we proceeded in the lecture.) * A. J. Leggett "Topics in the theory of helium" Physica Fennica 8, 125 (1973) (Fundamental paper which explains Non-classical rotational inertia very similarly to how we proceeded in the lecture.)
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==Week 15 (07 January 2019): The Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem (an introduction)== ==Week 15 (07 January 2019): The Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem (an introduction)==

Revision as of 20:49, 9 January 2019

This is the homepage for the ICFP course: Statistical Physics: Concepts and Applications that is running from 10 September 2018 through 07 January 2019. Lectures start at 8:30 on Monday mornings, and tutorials at 10:45.

Lectures: Werner KRAUTH

Tutorials (TD): Victor DAGARD

Look here for practical information


Latest News:

  • 07 January 2019: New schedule for final exam - Monday 14 January 20192:00pm-5:00pm.Look here for the final exam in 2017/18. The exam will take place in room ConfIV (orange corridor, second floor).
  • 03 January 2019: Mail sent about possible change of exam hour.
  • 29 October 2018: Look here for info on the 2018 mid-term exam (12 november 2018), and here for the 2017 midterm exam (with solutions). No external material will be allowed during this 2-hour exam.
  • 22 October 2018: Python2 program for the Kac-Ward matrix on 2x2 and 4x4 lattices available (check out Lecture 07).
  • 16 October 2018: BUGFIX: No lecture on 29 October 2018, Lecture on 05 November 2018, sorry for the confusion
  • 16 October 2018: Solutions of TD01-TD05 now available
  • 09 October 2018: Lecture Notes 05 now available

Contents

Week 1 (10 September 2018): Probability theory

References for Week 1:

Week 2 (17 September 2018): Statistical inference

References for Week 2:

Further References for Week 2:

Week 3 (24 September 2018): Statistical mechanics and Thermodynamics

References for Week 3:

  • Kerson Huang, "Statistical Mechanics 2nd edition" (1987) (Tutorial Problem 1).
  • L. Pauling, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 12 (2680-2684), 1935.(Tutorial Problem 2 on residual entropy of ice).
  • Bramwell, Gingras, Science 294, 1495 ( 2001) (Spin ice in pyrochlore).

Week 4 (01 October 2018): Phases and phase transitions: Van der Waals theory

References for Week 4:

  • L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz V, "Statistical Physics" (Pergamon, 1959, and later editions). NB: Chapter numbers and titles vary with edition. The following chapters all refer to the Lecture:
    • Chap 73 "Conditions of phase equilibrium"
    • Chap 79 "The critical point" (note that LL do not use the term "spinodal" for the points where dP/dV vanishes)
    • Chap 71 "Deviations of gases from the ideal state"
    • Chap 73 "Van der Waals' equation"
    • Chap 82 "The law of corresponding states"
    • Chap 152 (in some editions only) "Van der Waals theory of the critical point"
    • Chap 21 "Thermodynamic inequalities" (dP/dV < 0 is not strictly valid (!!) in finite systems - see homework)
  • R. A. Sauerwein, M. J. De Oliveira "Lattice model for biaxial and uniaxial nematic liquid crystals" J. of Chem. Phys. 144, 194904 (2016, Tutorial)
  • J. E. Mayer, W. W. Wood, "Interfacial Tension Effects in Finite, Periodic, Two-Dimensional Systems", Journal of Chemical Physics, 42, 4268 (1965, for the homework)

Week 5 (08 October 2018): Hard spheres and the Ising model in one dimension (Transfer matrix 1/2)

References for Week 5:

  • W. Krauth, "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" (Oxford, 2006) p. 269ff (hard-sphere partition function using the double substitution).
  • M Plischke, B Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific) p. 145f (some background material on the virial expansion), p. 77 ff (Ising chain, although our treatment was considerably different).
  • R. H. Swendsen, "Statistical mechanics of colloids and {Boltzmann's} definition of the entropy" American Journal of Physics 74, 187 (2006) (a good discussion of the Gibbs phenomenon)
  • D. J. Thouless, "Long-range order in one-dimensional Ising systems" Physical Review 187, 732 (1969) (Ingenious discussion of the 1/r^2 Ising model)
  • J. M. Kosterlitz, "Kosterlitz-Thouless physics: a review of key issues" Rep. Prog. Phys. 79 026001 (2016) (first two pages only, discussion and historical context for the Thouless paper. This is elementary to follow.).
  • C. Kittel, American Journal of Physics 37, 917 (1969) (First exercise of Tutorial 5)
  • J. A. Cuesta and A. Sanchez, J. Stat. Phys. 115, 869 (2004) (Third exercise of Tutorial 5, generalized Kittel model)

Week 6 (15 October 2018): Two-dimensional Ising model: From Ising to Onsager (Transfer matrix 2/2)


References for Week 6:

  • R. Peierls, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 32, 477 (1936) (famous loop-counting argument establishing spontaneous symmetry breaking in the two-dimensional Ising model below a finite temperature)
  • C. Bonati, Eur. J. Phys. 35, 035002 (2014) (generalization of the Peierls argument to higher dimensions)
  • M Plischke, B Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific) section 6.1 (Transfer matrix for the two-dimensional Ising model, Onsager's solution)
  • T D Schultz, D C Mattis, E Lieb, "Two-dimensional Ising model as a soluble problem of many fermions" Reviews of Modern Physics (1964) (Authoritative account of Onsager's solution).

Week 7 (22 October 2018): Two-dimensional Ising model: From Kramers & Wannier to Kac & Ward (Low- and high-temperature expansions)

NB: In the text of the HW07, we suppose N=even. Furthermore, note that an identity cycle is a cycle of length 1.

References for Week 7:

  • W. Krauth, "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" (Oxford, 2006) section 5.1.3 (high-temperature expansion, following van der Waerden (1941)), and section 5.1.4 (Kac-Ward solution)).
  • R. P. Feynman "Statistical Mechanics: A set of Lectures" (Benjamin/Cummings, 1972) (thorough discussion of Kramers-Wannier duality which yields the value of T_c, some discussion of the Kac-Ward solution).
  • M. Kac, J. C. Ward, "A combinatorial solution of the two-dimensional Ising model" Physical Review 185, 832 (1952) (NB: The paper contains the explicit diagonalization of the matrix U).
  • J. M. Yeomans, "Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions (Oxford, 1992), chapter 6 (for exercise 1 of tutorial 07).

Week 8 (05 November 2018): The three pillars of mean-field theory (Transitions and order parameters 1/2)

References for Week 8:

  • R. J. Baxter: "Exactly solved models in Statistical Mechanics" (1982) (Chapter 3, for the solution of the Ising model on a fully connected graph)
  • M. Plischke, B. Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific) section 3.1, pp 63 - 65 (Self-consistency à la Weiss, development for small m)
  • M. Plischke, B. Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific) section 3.1, pp 67 - 68 (Bragg-Williams theory)
  • C. M. Bender, S. A. Orszag, "Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory" (Springer, 1999) (difference equations)

Week 9 (12 November 2018): Landau theory / Ginzburg criterium (Transitions and order parameters 2/2) / Midterm exam

References for Week 9:

  • R. J. Baxter: "Exactly solved models in Statistical Mechanics" (1982) (Chapter 3: We expanded the free energy of the Ising model on a fully connected graph to motivate Landau theory)
  • J. Als‐Nielsen and R. J. Birgeneau: "Mean field theory, the Ginzburg criterion, and marginal dimensionality of phase transitions" Am. Journal of Physics 45, 554 (1977) (Elementary discussion of the Ginzburg criterion, although in the lecture we avoided the Fourier transform)
  • L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, "Statistical Physics", Chap 147 (Ginzburg criterion).

Week 10 (19 November 2017): Kosterlitz-Thouless physics in two dimensions: The XY model (Transitions without order parameters 1/2)

References for Week 10:

  • F. Wegner, "Spin-Ordering in a Planar Classical Heisenberg Model" Z. Phys 206, 465 (1967) (Exact solution of the harmonic approximation to the XY model, algebraic long-range correlations).
  • J. M. Kosterlitz, D. M. Thouless "Ordering, Metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems" J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics 6, 1181 (1973) (Nobel-prize winning paper, proposing topological excitations. For the free-energy argument for the XY model see p. 1190 ff).
  • J. Fröhlich, T. Spencer "The Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Two-Dimensional Abelian Spin Systems and the Coulomb Gas" Comm. Math. Phys. 81, 527 (1981) (Important paper proving the existence of a low-temperature phase with algebraic correlations. Nuance: This paper proves the existence of a low-temperature phase but not the presence of a KT transition).
  • E. Domany, M. Schick, and R. H. Swendsen "First-Order Transition in an xy Model with Nearest-Neighbor Interactions Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1535 (1984) (Paper explaining the two-energy scales J (for a first-order transition) and J_R (for the KT transition). The XY model and its variant can have KT transitions or else first-order transitions.)
  • M. Hasenbusch, "The two-dimensional XY model at the transition temperature: a high-precision Monte Carlo study" J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38, 5869 (2005) (This is the final one of a long series of computational-physics papers that have established that the transition in the XY model is indeed of the Kosterlitz-Thouless type. It computes the critical temperature to 5 significant digits: β_KT = 1.1199).

Week 11 (26 November 2017): Kosterlitz-Thouless physics in two dimensions: KTHNY Melting theory (Transitions without order parameters 2/2)

References for Week 11:

  • J. M. Kosterlitz, D. M. Thouless "Ordering, Metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems" J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics 6, 1181 (1973) (First two pages: Motivation of KT theory <=> 2D melting. Origin of KT theory <=> dislocation theory of melting).
  • N. D. Mermin, "Crystalline Order in 2 Dimensions", Phys. Rev. 176, 250 (1968) (Discovery of the dissociation of positional and orientational ordering in the two-dimensional harmonic model: see eqs 32 & 33).
  • D. R. Nelson, B. I. Halperin, "Dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions" Phys. Rev. B 19, 2457 (1979) (THE theory paper on the 2D melting theory, quite advanced).
  • A. P. Young "Melting and the vector Coulomb gas in two dimensions" Phys. Rev. B 19, 1855 (1979) (Vector nature of the dislocation-dislocation interaction, quite advanced).
  • D. R. Nelson, J. M. Kosterlitz, "Universal Jump in the Superfluid Density of Two-Dimensional Superfluids" Phys. Rev. Lett. 39, 1201 (1977) (We did not yet treat in class this most striking prediction of KT theory).

Week 12 (03 December 2018): The renormalization group - an introduction

References for Week 12:

  • H. J. Maris & L. P. Kadanoff "Teaching the renormalization group" American Journal of Physics 46, 652 (1978)
  • l. P. Kadanoff "Scaling Laws for Ising models near T_c" Physics 2, 263 (1966)
  • K. G. Wilson "The renormalization group: Critical phenomena and the Kondo problem" Reviews of Modern Physics 47, 773 (1975)
  • K. G. Wilson "The renormalization group and critical phenomena" Reviews of Modern Physics 55, 583 (1983) (Nobel lecture 1982)
  • P. J. Reynolds, H. E. Stanley and W. Klein "A Real-space renormalization group for site and bond percolation" J. of Phys. C, 10, L167 (1977) (Tutorial)
  • D. Stauffer, A. Aharony, "Introduction to Percolation Theory", 2nd rev. ed., Taylor & Francis, 2003 (Tutorial)

Week 13 (10 December 2018): Quantum statistics 1/2: Ideal Bosons

References for Week 13:

  • J. A. Lipa et al, "Specific heat of liquid helium in zero gravity very near the lambda point", Phys. Rev. B 68, 174518 (2003) (Space-shuttle experiments)
  • M. Hasenbusch, "The three-dimensional XY universality class: a high precision Monte Carlo estimate of the universal amplitude ratio A +/ A −" J. Stat. Mech. (2006) P08019 (Interpretation of space-shuttle experiments in 3d XY model).
  • D. M. Ceperley, E. L. Pollock, "Path-integral computation of the low-temperature properties of liquid 4He" Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 351 (1986) (First-principles numerical computation of the Lambda transition)
  • W. Krauth, "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" (2006) Chap 5.1: The two formulations of the model of ideal bosons
  • A. Kitaev, "Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons", Annals Phys. 303, 2-30 (2003, Tutorial)

Week 14 (17 December 2018): Quantum statistics 2/2: 4He and the 3D Heisenberg model, Non-classical rotational inertia

Here is part of section 3.1.4 of SMAC about the disturbing non-classical rotation of a quantum particle on a ring. The discussion is due to A. J. Leggett (1973, see below).


References for Week 14:

  • G. B. Hess and W. M. Fairbank "Measurement of angular momentum in superfluid helium" Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 216 (1967) (Non-classical response of a quantum fluid to rotation - A slowly rotating 4He vessel accelerates when cooled (!)).
  • W. Krauth "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" Sect 3.1.4. (Allows to understand non-classical rotational inertia by only considering an ideal quantum particles).
  • A. J. Leggett "Topics in the theory of helium" Physica Fennica 8, 125 (1973) (Fundamental paper which explains Non-classical rotational inertia very similarly to how we proceeded in the lecture.)

Week 15 (07 January 2019): The Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem (an introduction)

References for Week 15:

  • R. Kubo "The fluctuation-dissipation theorem" Reports on Progress in Physics, 29, 255 (1966). This is a fundamental text, of which we treat the first 10 pages, or so, in the lecture.
  • H. Risken "The Fokker-Planck equation (Springer Verlag, 1996).

References

Lecture notes are not yet available. A few essential references are given each week. ICFP students can access these references from within the Department (you may for example connect to Web of Science, and download them from there). You may also ask the library staff at 29 rue d'Ulm.

Books

  • L. Wasserman, "All of Statistics, A Concise Course in Statistical Inference" (Springer, 2005)
  • W. Krauth, "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" (Oxford, 2006)
  • M Plischke, B Bergersen, "Equilibrium Statistical Physics" (World Scientific, 2006)
  • L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, "Statistical Physics" (Pergamon, 1969)
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