Course teacher(s)
Pierre GASPARD (Coordinator) and PATRICK GROSFILSECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
french
Course content
Phase transitions, non-ideal systems, density functional theory, functional integrals, theory of critical phenomena, renormalization group theory, foundations of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, fluctuation theorem, diffusion, linear response theory, microscopic hydrodynamic modes and transport coefficients, Green-Kubo formulae, Onsager reciprocity relations, Boltzmann equation
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
This course is devoted to the concepts and methods of statistical mechanics in systems of interacting particles and it completes in this way the statistical physics course given in BA3.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Cours ayant celui-ci comme co-requis
Teaching methods and learning activities
Lectures, exercices, and homework
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
cf. lecture notes
Other information
Contacts
Pierre Gaspard
E-mail: gaspard@ulb.ac.be
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- Oral examination
Oral examination
Oral exam
Language(s) of evaluation
- french