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STATISTICAL MECHANICS II

PHYSICS 716
Course Description

Symmetries and symmetry breaking, phase transitions, mean field theory, critical exponents, scaling hypothesis, renormalization group, diagrammatic expansion, epsilon-expansion, exact solution of the 2d Ising model. Boltzman kinetic equation, H-theorem, Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations, Born-Markov master equation, Lindblad superoperators, classical and quantum noise, theory of amplifiers.

Prerequisties
Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall

Grade Point Average
3.86

12.21% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

No change from Historical

A Rate
85.71%

5.49% from Historical

Class Size
7

-12.5% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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